Talk:Nickel-62
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Contradiction on nucleus mass and atomic mass of 60Ni and 62Ni?
[edit]60Ni and 62Ni switch places on lowest mass rankings. How can this be if they have the same number of electrons? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.61.174 (talk) 15:12, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
- Ni-60 is the low mass per nucleon winner when looking at the bare nucleus (start with that). But add a number of electrons (28) and you end up adding fewer PER NUCLEON to Ni-62 (28 added to 62 nucleons). So Ni-62 gets less of an "extra mass" electron handicap PER NUCLEON than Ni-60 (which gets the same 28 per only 60 nucleons), and Ni-62 ends up winning the low-mass per nucleon category when "dressed" as a neutral atom, because of that smaller handicap. SBHarris 19:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Article Clutter
[edit]This article has been cluttered with information about iron and reads too much like a debate about whether Ni-62 has the highest binding energy per nucleon or not. It should give important facts about the Ni-62 isotope, and not include debate or speculation about other isotopes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Positronics (talk • contribs) 05:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Meaningless sentence
[edit]"despite having a slightly higher binding energy in a way that has no effect on its binding energy" appears to be absolute nonsense. One of the instances of the words "binding energy" appear to be a mistake, and is actually referring to something other than binding energy.