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Information about Gold-186:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:185.965998±0.000155amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-31.672961±0.144200MeV
    Binding Energy:1471.133084±0.144200MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-3.225158±0.141825MeV
"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: (7-)
  • Half life: Unknown
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: 3-
  • Half life: 10.7 min ( 642 sec., λ = 0.00107967 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    186
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 6.120 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: α to
    182
    77
    Ir
      (Q = 4.906 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.00080 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    186
    80
    Hg
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
010.7 m3- -1.28(3) LRIMSNP A512 241 (90)
1.28(2) NMR/ONHFI 43 141 (88)
-1.26(3) LRIMSNP A493 224 (89)/PRL 58 1516 (87)
1.07(13) NO/SHFI 22 507 (85)
+3.10(6) LRIMSNIMPR B70 537 (92)
+3.14(16) 193AuNMR-ONNP A562 205 (93)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.