Find the nuclear binding enrgy of potassium-40 (atomic mass = 39.9632591 amu) in units of joules per nucleon.[Data: neutron mass = 1.674928 10-24 g; proton mass = 1.672623 10-24g; electron mass = 9.109387 10-28 g; NA = 6.0221367 1023 /mol; c = 2.99792458 108 m/s]
A) 1.37 10-12 J/nucleon
B) 5.48 10-11 J/nucleon
C) 5.64 10-11 J/nucleon
D) 1.41 10-12 J/nucleon
E) 2.97 10-12 J/nucleon
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