Given that nuclear protons should repel each other given like electric charges, what forces binds nuclei together?

1 Answer
Jan 17, 2018

By the #"strong nuclear force"#....

Explanation:

At nuclear ranges, approx. #10^(-15)*m#, protons, and neutrons engage in the strong interaction, which is approx. #10^2# times as great as the forces of electrostatic repulsion.

The result? Nuclei are stable... This is something that is barely mentioned in chemistry, and is the preserve of the particle physicist, and so you might have got a more #"sofisticated answer"# in the #"fysics section"#.