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Information about Cadmium-109:

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Cadmium-109 is used to analyze metal alloys for checking stock, sorting scrap.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:108.904986±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-88.505359±0.004076MeV
    Binding Energy:930.726582±0.004079MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.019953±0.005855MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 462.6 days ( 3.99686×10+07 sec., λ = 1.73423×10-08 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    109
    47
    Ag
      (Q = 0.214 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    109
    49
    In
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
0453 d5/2+ -0.8278461(15) [111Cd]"OP,N,OD"PL 42A 273 (72)/PR 132 1181 (63)
+0.69(7) "OD, R"PR 177 1615 (69)
4638.9 ms11/2- -1.096(2) SOPADCf70HI 356 (70)
-0.92(9) "[111,3,5Cd 11/2-]"TDPADHFI 4 229 (78)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.