Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Carbon-12:

(no NIST x-ray data)(no NIST attenuation data)
WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:12.000000±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):0.000000±0.000000MeV
    Binding Energy:92.161753±0.000014MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-17.338083±0.001000MeV
"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: 98.89%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    12
    5
    B
    E.C. from
    12
    7
    N
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
443845 fs2+ +0.06(3) CERPL B122 23 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.