Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Argon-40:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:39.962383±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-35.039890±0.000004MeV
    Binding Energy:343.810441±0.000052MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.504873±0.000271MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 99.6003%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    40
    17
    Cl
    E.C. from
    40
    19
    K
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
14611.12 ps2+ -0.2(2) TFNP A549 304 (92)
+0.01(4) CERPRL 24 903 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.