Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cadmium-120:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:119.909851±0.000020amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-83.972912±0.018792MeV
    Binding Energy:1014.978686±0.018793MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.760381±0.044247MeV
"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: 50.80 s ( 50.8 sec., λ = 0.0136446 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    120
    49
    In
      (Q = 1.760 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    120
    47
    Ag
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    121
    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)