When nuclear fission occurs some mass is lost where does that mass go

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Marianna [84]2 years ago

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Sample Response: Some of the mass is converted to energy. The relative amounts of matter and energy stay the same.

horrorfan [7]2 years ago

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The loss of matter is called the mass defect. The missing matter is converted into energy. You can actually calculate the amount of energy produced during a nuclear reaction with fairly simple equation developed by Albert Einstein; E = mc^2. In this equation, E is the amount of energy produced, m is the missing mass, or the mass defect, and c is the speed of light, which is a rather large number. The speed of light is squared, making that part of the equation a very large number that, even when multiplied by a small amount of mass, yields a large amount of energy.

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