Mass defect and binding energy

The collision of a particle with another particle causes a shift in the direction of a particle, this is known as scattering. A collision can occur between two particles that may or may not repel one another, such as two positive, two negative ions, and does not have to include actual physical contact between the […]

The energy required to separate a particle from a bunch of particles or disperse all the bunch’s particles by applying force is called binding energy. In simple words, it is dismantling all the system particles into separate units.  F.W. Aston discovered binding energy in 1920. The term binding energy comes in physics under the branch