KnowraMass defectLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Mass defect, each with the reason it gives.All 9Broader topic 1Related 8Nuclear binding energyRelated: A nucleus’s missing mass corresponds to its binding energy through Einstein’s mass–energy relation.Nuclear stabilityRelated: The missing mass corresponds to the energy binding nucleons together.Atomic massRelated: Nuclear binding makes an atom lighter than its unbound particles.Gravitational binding energyRelated: For gravitationally bound relativistic systems, binding energy can appear as a mass difference.Carbon-12Related: Carbon-12’s binding energy appears as a mass difference.Francis William AstonRelated: Aston’s precise masses revealed departures from simple whole-number atomic weights.Semi-empirical mass formulaRelated: Binding energy converts the formula’s energy estimate into a mass deficit.Whole-number ruleRelated: It quantifies the departure from a simple whole-number sum of nucleon masses.