NUCLEARFORCE

Nuclear force

The nuclear force is the force between two or more nucleons.  Its fundamental laws and constants are unknown unlike the Coulomb and Newton laws. It is responsible for binding protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei. The energy released by such binding causes the masses of nuclei to be less than the total mass of the protons and neutrons which form them; this is the energy used in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The force is powerfully attractive between nucleons at distances of about 1 femtometer between their centers, but rapidly decreases to insignificance at distances beyond about 2.5 fm. At very short distances less than 0.7 fm, it becomes repulsive, and is ...

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nuclear force

Noun

  1. The force that acts between nucleons and binds protons and neutrons into atomic nuclei; the residual strong force
  2. The strong interaction that binds quarks and gluons together to form nucleons; the colour force


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