Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Actinium-225:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:225.023221±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):21.629824±0.007517MeV
    Binding Energy:1724.788355±0.007523MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.671482±0.009599MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: (3/2-)
  • Half life: 10.0 days ( 864000 sec., λ = 8.02254×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    221
    87
    Fr
      (Q = 5.935 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 14C   (Q = 5.935 MeV)   Branch ratio: 6E-10 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    225
    88
    Ra
    α from
    229
    91
    Pa
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)