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Why ordinary nuclei cannot grow arbitrarily large: Coulomb repulsion and spontaneous-fission instability set limits on viable charge and baryon number (roughly A up to a few hundred), including the nonexistence of superheavy nuclei beyond the known range and the island-of-stability question. Excludes dense/quark matter stability claims.

Coulomb barriers and fission instability prevent ordinary nuclei from aggregating to baryon numbers above 300 under natural conditions
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitutionempirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitutionNuclear physicsimportance · settledImportance 0.15, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution
No known atomic nucleus has a baryon number greater than about 300
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitutionempirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitutionNuclear physicsimportance · settledImportance 0.10, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution

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