Binding energy curve (average binding energy per nucleon in MeV against number of nucleons in nucleus) for a number of relatively common (abundant) isotopes (not chosen systematically; almost anything with an occurence of over .2 was chosen though a few exceptions are in there, such as U235). A few important ones for the purposes of nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are marked, as well as iron-56, which sits at the highest point on this graph and cannot yield energy from fusion or fission.

Data set was taken from here and the exact set used to generate this graph has been posted to this talk page.

Created in Excel, exported to Adobe Illustrator, exported to Inkscape, and rendered into this graph, by User:Fastfission.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:22, 8 November 2009		671×441 (42 KB)	Autiwa	(j'ai supprimé les lignes vides, rejoint tous les traits pour faire une seule courbe,et viré les ronds pour rajouter un style de points à l'intérieur même de la ligne, aisément modifiable. Ainsi le fichier prend beaucoup moins de place et est plus pr)
	14:33, 8 November 2009		698×466 (612 KB)	Fastfission	(fix metadata, fonts)
	14:14, 8 November 2009		698×466 (612 KB)	Fastfission	(restore axis (you don't change the axes on graphs based on their values!), fix fonts, update metadata)
	21:32, 2 October 2009		698×466 (612 KB)	JWB	(Move x axis scale to top for easier comparison since most data points are at top)
	20:48, 7 January 2007		698×466 (612 KB)	Fastfission	(Binding energy curve (average binding energy per nucleon in MeV against number of nucleons in nucleus) for a number of relatively common (abundant) isotopes. A few important ones for the purposes of nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are marked, as well a)

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