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Information about Carbon-14:

(no NIST x-ray data)(no NIST attenuation data)
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Carbon-14 helps in research to ensure that potential new drugs are metabolized without forming harmful by-products.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:14.003242±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):3.019892±0.000004MeV
    Binding Energy:105.284507±0.000019MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.156475±0.000004MeV
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 5730 years ( 1.80724×10+11 sec., λ = 3.83539×10-12 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    14
    7
    N
      (Q = 0.156 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    14
    5
    B
    β- + α from
    18
    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
672867 ps3- 0.82(2) RIV/DPR C9 1748 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.