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A carbon-12 atom has a mass defect of 0.09564 amu.

What is its nuclear binding energy? Round to 3 significant figures.

x 10
J per carbon-12 atom.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
E = Δm c^2 = 0.09564 amu × 931.494 MeV/amu × 1.602176634×10^-13 J/MeV
= 1.43 × 10^-11 J per carbon-12 atom (3 significant figures).