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Information about Chlorine-38:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:37.968011±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-29.797976±0.000111MeV
    Binding Energy:323.208235±0.000121MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.916787±0.000503MeV
"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: 2-
  • Half life: 37.24 min ( 2234.4 sec., λ = 0.000310216 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    38
    18
    Ar
      (Q = 4.917 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.671 Mev
  • Spin: 5- 37.24
  • Half life: 715 ms ( 0.715 sec., λ = 0.969437 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.671 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    38
    16
    S
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
037.3 m2- 2.05(2) b-NMRZP 252 242 (72)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.