Energy is released during a nuclear reaction

due to a conversion between mass and energy.
Mass is not conserved. The initial and ﬁnal
amounts are diﬀerent.
If a total of 4.6 g of mass were “missing”,
how much energy is released? The speed of
light is 3 × 108 m/s.
Answer in units of J

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E=mc²

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