Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Silver-118:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:117.914582±0.000069amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-79.565986±0.063810MeV
    Binding Energy:995.211467±0.063810MeV
    β- Decay Energy:7.142918±0.060508MeV
"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: 1(-)
  • Half life: 3.76 s ( 3.76 sec., λ = 0.184348 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    118
    48
    Cd
      (Q = 7.060 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.128 Mev
  • Spin: 4(+) 3.76
  • Half life: 2.0 s ( 2 sec., λ = 0.346574 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    118
    48
    Cd
      (Q = 7.188 MeV)   Branch ratio: 59.00 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.128 MeV)   Branch ratio: 41.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    118
    46
    Pd
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)