Re:The New York Times Told Me To Take This Down
by uvdiv on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:55AM
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To answer your question in the dead thread about the cold fusion scam: Ni-64 (n,g) Ni-65 (e-,) Cu-65 is physical, and Cu-65 has a greater binding energy than Ni-64:
The binding energy per nucleon is lower, as the other guy points out, but that's the wrong metric because Cu-65 has one more nucleon. The free neutron coming in has zero binding energy.
http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=28&n=36
(look at Δ(MeV), the mass excess)
The binding energy per nucleon is lower, as the other guy points out, but that's the wrong metric because Cu-65 has one more nucleon. The free neutron coming in has zero binding energy.