For the lightest of nuclei, binding energy per nucleon is not a very reliable gauge of stability. There is no nucleon binding at all for a single proton or neutron, yet one is stable (so far as we know) and the other is not. (a) Helium-3 and hydrogen-3 (tritium) differ only in the switch of a nucleon. Which has the higher binding energy per nucleon? (b) Helium-3 is stable, while tritium, in fact, decays into helium-3. Does this somehow violate laws?
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