Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Calcium-42:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:41.958618±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-38.546765±0.000378MeV
    Binding Energy:361.895254±0.000382MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-6.425839±0.000128MeV
"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: 0.647%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    42
    19
    K
    E.C. from
    42
    21
    Sc
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
15250.82 ps2+ -0.19(8) CERNP A204 574 (73)
31895.3 ns6+ -2.49(9) TDPADPRL 35 497 (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.