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Information about Chlorine-40:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:39.970416±0.000034amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-27.557728±0.032066MeV
    Binding Energy:337.110633±0.032066MeV
    β- Decay Energy:7.482161±0.032066MeV
"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: 1.35 min ( 81 sec., λ = 0.00855737 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    40
    18
    Ar
      (Q = 7.480 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    40
    16
    S
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    41
    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)