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Information about Americium-240:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:240.055288±0.000015amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):51.500271±0.013925MeV
    Binding Energy:1811.293630±0.013929MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.215380±0.013941MeV
"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-)
  • Half life: 50.8 h ( 182880 sec., λ = 3.79017×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    240
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 1.379 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    236
    93
    Np
      (Q = 5.710 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.00019 %
    Meta state at 3.000 Mev 50.8
  • Half life: 0.942 ms ( 0.000942 sec., λ = 735.825 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: SF   (Q = 0 0.000 MeV)   Branch ratio: <=100.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    244
    97
    Bk
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)