All Reactions Turn Mass Into Energy, Not Just Nuclear Ones
Channel: Erica Calman
Date: 29/04/2023

re: the concept of mass by Angela Collier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HlCfwEduqA Also an addendum of my own actually all processes conserve total quark and lepton number of (no. quarks)-(no. anti-quarks) and (no. leptons)-(no. anti-leptons) but nuclear reactions do not involve any outside anti matter coming to annihilate anything. Beta decays etc. do sometimes involve anti-matter  being created alongside regular matter but fission and fusion don't even involve that. I guess I can get away with it because I said preserved rather conserved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy#Mass_defect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_mechanics#Force