Question Tritium and helium-3 have the same number of nucleons, but tritium has

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Question Tritium and helium-3 have the same number of nucleons, but tritium has one proton and two neutrons whereas helium-3 has two protons and one neutron. Without doing a calculation, decide which nucleus has a greater binding energy. Explain. (Select all that apply.)

This happens in part because the helium-3 nucleus has greater Coulombic repulsion between nucleons.
This happens in part because the tritium nucleus has greater Coulombic repulsion.
This happens in part because the helium-3 nucleus has fewer neutrons.
Tritium is more stable.
This happens in part because the tritium nucleus has an extra neutron enhancing the nuclear forces.
Helium-3 is more stable.

.EXERCISE HINTS: GETTING STARTED | I'M STUCK! .Calculate the binding energy of .
Eb = 2 .
What is binding energy? What factors affect the binding energy of an atom? MeV
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Helium-3 is more stable

This happens in part because the helium-3 nucleus has greater coulombic repulsion between nucleons

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