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Pro internet tip: use the name people have given you. In this case, either the username "saraid216", or the name given in the person's profile.

And now that I've started on this topic, I'll also note that people make a lot of wrong guesses about gender, too.

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To answer your question in the dead thread about the cold fusion scam: Ni-64 (n,g) Ni-65 (e-,) Cu-65 is physical, and Cu-65 has a greater binding energy than Ni-64:

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=28&n=36

(look at Δ(MeV), the mass excess)

The binding energy per nucleon is lower, as the other guy points out, but that's the wrong metric because Cu-65 has one more nucleon. The free neutron coming in has zero binding energy.

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