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Is binding energy apart of rest mass?

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in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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Yes. Any energy a free particle has at rest will be measured as inertia.

A proton and neutron bound together make deuterium, whose mass is less than mp + mn. The energy equivalent of that mass defect is the binding energy.

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