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Question 320 of 664

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This question contains Statement- 1 and Statement- 2. Of the four choices given after the statements, choose the one that best describes the two statements: Statement- 1: Energy is released when heavy nuclei undergo fission or light nuclei undergo fusion and Statement- 2: For heavy nuclei, binding energy per nucleon increases with increasing $Z while for light nuclei it decreases with increasing Z.

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