Keywords: Binding energy curve - common isotopes.svg 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 https //web archive org/web/20060309210852/http //www einstein-online info/en/spotlights/binding_energy/binding_energy/index txt here archived from http //www einstein-online info/en/spotlights/binding_energy/binding_energy/index txt the original 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 Fastfission If you want to credit someone credit Wikimedia Commons Otherwise don't credit anyone that's fine by me --Fastfission 15 01 14 April 2008 UTC translation possible derivative works Binding energy curve - common isotopes DE svg Binding energy curve - common isotopes es svg Binding energy curve - common isotopes fi svg Binding energy curve - common isotopes tr svg Nuclear binding energy curves |