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The strong nuclear force between nucleons is attractive but short range; the Coulomb force between protons is long range, but repulsive.


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Nuclear interactions are interesting battlegrounds of different forces - mainly the Coulomb force, which is electrostatic in nature, and the strong nuclear force.
The strong nuclear force is a strong attractive force, but only activates when you bring the nucleons closer to each other than a few femtometers. At these length scales, no force in the universe is stronger than the strong nuclear force.


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