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contributes to mass, we say that the difference in the total mass
of nuclei on the two sides get converted into energy or vice-versa It is in these sense that a nuclear reaction is an example of mass-
energy interconversion (c) From the point of view of mass-energy interconversion, a chemical
reaction is similar to a nuclear reaction in principle