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Information about Aluminum-26:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:25.986892±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-12.210339±0.000197MeV
    Binding Energy:211.894138±0.000199MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.065721±0.003006MeV
"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: 5+
  • Half life: 717000 years ( 2.26142×10+13 sec., λ = 3.0651×10-14 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    26
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 4.004 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.228 Mev
  • Spin: 0+ 717000
  • Half life: 6.3452 s ( 6.3452 sec., λ = 0.10924 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    26
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 4.232 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    26
    14
    Si
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    27
    15
    P
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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
07x10*5 y5+ +2.804(4) [27Al]ABLSJP G22 99 (96)
+0.27(3) [27Al]ABLSJP G23 1145 (97)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.