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The illustration visualizes the "mass defect". The mass defect states that the mass of the unbound nucleons (here: 2 neutrons and 2 protons) is greater than the mass of a nucleus composed of the same nucleons. A part of the mass of the unbound nucleons is converted into binding energy of the nucleus according to the mass-energy equivalence.