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Information about Cobalt-55:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:54.942003±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-54.023711±0.001365MeV
    Binding Energy:476.822923±0.001367MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-8.693800±0.011019MeV
"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: 7/2-
  • Half life: 17.53 h ( 63108 sec., λ = 1.09835×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    55
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 3.451 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    55
    28
    Ni
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    56
    29
    Cu
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
017.5 h7/2- +4.822(3) NMR/ONNP A201 561 (73)/HFI 2 45 (76)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.