Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cadmium-117:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:116.907218±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-86.425638±0.003378MeV
    Binding Energy:993.217443±0.003381MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.517373±0.006218MeV
"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: 1/2+
  • Half life: 2.49 h ( 8964 sec., λ = 7.73257×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    117
    49
    In
      (Q = 2.517 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.136 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2)- 2.49
  • Half life: 3.36 h ( 12096 sec., λ = 5.73038×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    117
    49
    In
      (Q = 2.653 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    117
    47
    Ag
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)