Prout (unit)

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The Prout , named after the Scottish chemist William Prout , is a unit for the nuclear binding energy , it corresponds to 1/12 of the binding energy of deuterium .

1 Prout = 185.5 keV

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  • HG Jerrard & DB McNeill: A Dictionary of Scientific Units. Including dimensionless numbers and scales , Chapman and Hall, London / New York, 1986, p. 111.