Re: Why hydrogen does not have a neutron?

Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
> (proton) + electron = hydrogen, H-1
> (proton + neutron) + electron = deuterium, H-2
> (proton + 2 neutrons) + electron = tritium, H-3
>
> Go look up the energetics of each nucleus,
>
> <http://t2.lanl.gov/data/astro/molnix96/massd.html>

Please tell me what I am doing wrong, Uncle Al.

Using the link that you gave above to calculate 'Ground-State Masses and
Deformations', I got reasonable numbers for Hydrogen-1, Hydrogen-2,
Hydrogen-3, Hydrogen-4, Hydrogen-5 and Hydrogen-6. But when I tried to
calculate the nuclear properties for Hydrogen-7, the calculator pooped out.
Likewise it pooped out for Helium-2, but it gave me reasonable numbers for
Helium-3 through Helium-10. Then when I tried it for Helium-11, it pooped
out again. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I'm a professional nuclear
engineer and I'm trying to do some design calculations for a thermonuclear
reactor I'm building on my bench. Thanks anyway.

Ian St. John


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