Fission Wall [SEP] continent
Fission Wall
Fission Wall () is a granite cliff, high, on the north face of Mount Griffith, Hays Mountains, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. The feature was climbed on November 16, 1987, by a United States Antarctic Research Program – Arizona State University geological party led by Edmund Stump. The name derives from granite samples collected on the wall at spacing for dating by the fission-track method.
. If these quark matter nuclides exist, they would be stable against fission, as fission would increase the surface. The quark matter nuclide could absorb neutrons resulting in increase in its mass.
The boundary to the continent of stability is determined by the situations where the Coulomb energy due to electric charge overcomes the binding energy, or where decay into atomic nuclei results in lower energy. The lowest energy mass number is proportional to the cube of the charge (atomic number). However a range of charges is stable for each