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Which metallic isotopes are best-suited for substitution into pre-existing, non-nuclear medicines? Heavy metals like zinc are both known for their healing and nuclear properties. Zinc is transferrous, which means that it reacts out of the iron-based nuclear cycles. It is our task to identify to which cycle, or cycles, zinc belongs. Once this is done, it may naturally be put into medicine. 74.195.28.79 ( talk) 15:05, 1 November 2008 (UTC) reply

why don't the protons present in nucleus repel when they are like charges? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.63.168.50 ( talk) 10:21, 10 July 2009 (UTC) reply

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Nuclear chemistry article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. Nuclear chemistry related questions can be posted at the Reference desk. -- Puzzledvegetable ( talk) 19:44, 1 July 2019 (UTC) reply

Because in addition to the repulsive electrostatic force between protons, there is a much stronger short-range attractive nuclear force between the protons (and neutrons too) which holds the nucleus together. However this nuclear force decreases exponentially, while the electrostatic force decreases more slowly as 1/r² ( Coulomb's law), so at longer distances (outside the nucleus) the electrostatic force dominates. Dirac66 ( talk) 13:45, 10 July 2009 (UTC) reply

The nuclear force could have gravitational origin, as it is known that additional terms to gravity law have been proposed starting with Newton.-- 188.27.144.144 ( talk) 14:32, 19 March 2014 (UTC). reply

Define nuclear chemistry 103.129.142.65 ( talk) 09:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC) reply