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Scientists found an unexpected nuclear energy shift in radioactive lanthanum isotopes, challenging existing models and ...

was less than the atomic mass (average mass of the atom). For example, a helium atom has an atomic mass of 4, but an atomic number (or positive charge) of 2. Since electrons have almost no mass ...