The products of nuclear reaction usually have a different mass than the reactants why?

Explanation:

The best way to explain this is to use an example

You have to understand what happened. A electron was shot into the nucleus of the Iodine. That electron change the entire composition of the nucleus resulting in 52 protons. The mass remained the same (125) but the nucleus was altered. The chemical became 125 52 Tellurium.  But what is important is that it takes a tremendous amount of energy to disrupt a nucleus, and a new chemical is born from that disruption.

vanderwaal's forces of attraction are the electrostatic intermolecular forces that exist in a molecule due to the temporary or permanent dipoles that are developed in a molecule. in , the major intermolecular forces are dipole-dipole interactions as the molecule is polar (bent structure). so the vanderwaal's forces of interaction in between molecules are the permanent dipole-dipole interactions that develop due to the dipole that exists in between the polar h - s bond. the positively charged hydrogen atom is attracted towards the negative end of the dipole that is sulfur of the adjacent molecule. therefore, these forces of attraction are relatively stronger than that of london dispersion forces that exist in non polar molecules.