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Information about Cobalt-56:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:55.939844±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-56.035003±0.002415MeV
    Binding Energy:486.905539±0.002416MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.135358±0.011236MeV
"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: 4+
  • Half life: 77.27 days ( 6.67613×10+06 sec., λ = 1.03825×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    56
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 4.566 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    56
    28
    Ni
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
078.8 d4+ 3.85(1) [60Co]NMR/ONJP C10 3651 (77)
3.99(6) [60Co]NMR/ONCzJP B36 1331 (86)
+0.25(9) [58Co]NMR/ONPR B37 4911 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.