Talk:Nuclear chemistry
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Medicine[edit]
Which metallic isotopes are best-suited for substitution into pre-existing, non-nuclear medicines? Heavy metals like zinc are both known for their healing and nuclear properties. Zinc is transferrous, which means that it reacts out of the iron-based nuclear cycles. It is our task to identify to which cycle, or cycles, zinc belongs. Once this is done, it may naturally be put into medicine. 74.195.28.79 (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
nuclear chemistry[edit]
why don't the protons present in nucleus repel when they are like charges? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.63.168.50 (talk) 10:21, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Because in addition to the repulsive electrostatic force between protons, there is a much stronger short-range attractive nuclear force between the protons (and neutrons too) which holds the nucleus together. However this nuclear force decreases exponentially, while the electrostatic force decreases more slowly as 1/r2 (Coulomb's law), so at longer distances (outside the nucleus) the electrostatic force dominates. Dirac66 (talk) 13:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
The nuclear force could have gravitational origin, as it is known that additional terms to gravity law have been proposed starting with Newton.--188.27.144.144 (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2014 (UTC).
