mass defect

noun

Definitions

  1. the difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of the masses of its individual…

    the difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of the masses of its individual components in the free state; equivalent to the binding energy

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mass defect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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