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Information about Bismuth-208:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:207.979727±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-18.884455±0.003521MeV
    Binding Energy:1632.784267±0.003532MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.401302±0.002419MeV
"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: (5)+
  • Half life: 368000 years ( 1.16067×10+13 sec., λ = 5.97195×10-14 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    208
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 2.880 MeV)
    Meta state at 1.571 Mev
  • Spin: (10)- 368000
  • Half life: 2.58 ms ( 0.00258 sec., λ = 268.662 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 1.571 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    208
    84
    Po
    α from
    212
    85
    At
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
03.7x10*5 y5+ +4.633(10) [209Bi]LRFSPL B405 31 (97)
-0.64(6) [209Bi]LRFSPL B405 31 (97)
15712.53 ms10- 2.672(14) NMR/PADNP A227 421 (74)/ZP A322 463 (85)
2.633(14) TDPADDisA 36 790B (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.