How can mass be converted into nuclear fission and fusion reaction?

Answer 1

There is a misunderstanding here. It is a fine, but very important point. Mass can neither be created nor destroyed, and energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

There is a relationship between mass and energy, in the relativistic framework set down by Einstein in his famous mass-energy equivalence equation e = mc2. Do not misunderstand, however - this does not mean that mass can be converted to energy and vice versa - it means that mass has energy, and energy has mass, all depending on relativistic velocity.

In nuclear fission, the nuclear force (residual binding energy) that holds protons and neutrons together in an atom is greater than the nuclear force required to hold the protons and neutrons together in the split atoms that result from the fission process. The differential nuclear force, or mass deficit, is released during fission. It is more correct to say that the mass is carried away with the energy, because the mass is the energy and the energy is the mass, as stated above.

Answer 2

The simple answer is "Energy", at some level consistent with the thermal properties of the environment in which the event takes place. At some increasing thermal level, the process of fission, producing energy through the breaking of the strong nuclear force between (and binding) the particles of the nucleus, will, or more correctly may, under the right circumstance, convert to the process of fusing nuclei, and thereby converting nuclear mass into energy via Einsteins great equation E=MC^2.

It must be said then that gr for gr, lb for lb, or ton for ton, the fusion event releases significantly more energy per unit event than the fission process.

Answer 3

You don't convert mass into fission or fusion. What happens is that when fission or fusion occur, a small proportion of the mass involved is destroyed and this releases the energy which can then be used.

Answer 4

In a nuclear reaction, the mass of atoms is converted into energy according to Einstein's formula E = mc2.

Answer 5

Energy, E = mc2

Answer 6

Energy

Answer 7

'energy"

Answer 8

energy