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Information about Gold-196:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:195.966551±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-31.157245±0.004045MeV
    Binding Energy:1551.330596±0.004054MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.686016±0.003086MeV
"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: 2-
  • Half life: 6.183 days ( 534211 sec., λ = 1.29752×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    196
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 1.506 MeV)   Branch ratio: 92.80 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    196
    80
    Hg
      (Q = 0.686 MeV)   Branch ratio: 7.20 %
    Meta state at 0.084 Mev
  • Spin: 5+ 6.183
  • Half life: 8.1 s ( 8.1 sec., λ = 0.0855737 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.085 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.595 Mev
  • Spin: 12- 8.13
  • Half life: 9.6 h ( 34560 sec., λ = 2.00563×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.596 MeV)
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
06.18 d2- +0.580(15) LRIMSNP A512 241 (90)
+0.5914(14) AB/DPR C2 225 (70)
0.5906(5) [198Au]NMR/ONPR C36 2072 (87)
0.81(7) [197Au]"NMR/ON, N"PR C36 2072 (87)/PR B30 5680 (84)
5969.7 h12- 5.72(8) NMR/ONNP A373 256 (82)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.