Nuclear fission is possible because the binding energy per nucleon ...
- Aincreases with increasing mass number at low mass numbers.
- Bdecreases with increasing mass number at low mass numbers.
- Cincreases with increasing mass number at high mass numbers.
- Ddecreases with increasing mass number at high mass numbers.
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