Question

What quantities are conserved in a nuclear transmutation.

Answer 1

Answer:

Nuclear transformations always obey two fundamental conservation laws: (1) mass number is conserved and (2) electrical charge is conserved. Energy and mass are not served, but can be inter-converted according to Einstein’s equation, E=mc2. The amount of binding energy released from the nucleus of an atom during fission and fusion is so tremendous that a small fraction of mass is converted to energy; this is referred to as the mass defect.