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Information about Gold-188:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:187.965085±0.000108amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-32.523000±0.100000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1488.125000±0.100000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:-2.300000±0.150000MeV #
"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: 1(-)
  • Half life: 8.84 min ( 530.4 sec., λ = 0.00130684 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    188
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 5.300 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    188
    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
08.8 m1- -0.07(3) LRIMSNP A493 224 (89)/PRL 58 1516 (87)
0.07(2) ABNP A348 25 (80)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.