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Is it easier to take out a nucleon (a)from carbon or from iron (b)from iron or from lead?

It will be easier to take out nucleon from carbon and lead as iron is most stable among them because it has the highest binding energy per nucleon and thus it is difficult to remove nucleon from the nucleus of iron.


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