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noun
The difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of the masses of its individual components in the free state; equivalent to the binding energy
This difference is known as the mass defect and is a measure of the total binding energy (and, hence, the stability) of the nucleus.
The numerical difference between the actual measured mass of an isotope and A is called either the mass excess or the mass defect (symbol Δ).
If you made very precise measurements of all the particles before and after the process, you would find that the total mass of the latter was very slightly smaller than the former, a difference known as the "mass defect".
The difference, called the mass defect, is accounted for during the combination of these particles by conversion into binding energy, according to an equation in which the energy (E) released equals the product of the mass (m) consumed and the square of the velocity of light in vacuum (c); thus, E = mc2.
For illustration, the two dimensions involving mass defect characteristics are represented by one only.
Furthermore, Δm/z restrains feasible differences in the mass defect of adjacent series peaks, denoted Δm.
13321_2017_197_MOESM1_ESM.docx Additional file 1. Definition of bounds for mass defect differences.
Salt clusters have m/z values with characteristically high mass defects.
Number of metabolites in the human metabolome database with high mass defects when expressed as common adducts.
We then applied this equation to experimental datasets and removed feature-s with mass defects greater than our model equation.
The relative intensity (I D/I G ≈ 1.397 > 1) indicates that there exist mass defects caused by the N-doping in NC@SnO2 [29, 30, 31].
