When two things are balanced, the balance can be upset in two ways: you can change the first thing or you can change the second thing.
In either case the thing that was once balanced is now unbalanced. It does not matter how you get to the unbalanced state, the result is the same, fission. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:27:07 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >Since we know that proton charge can be screened and therefore variable, > >the coulomb coefficient is reduced relative to the Asymmetry term as a > >result of screening. > >See > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-empirical_mass_formula > > The Coulomb term is negative. If you reduce it, the binding energy > increases, > making the nucleus more stable, not less. (The Coulomb term reduces the > binding > energy of the nucleus because of the mutual repulsion of the protons.) > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
