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Information about Cobalt-57:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:56.936296±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-59.339666±0.001389MeV
    Binding Energy:498.281524±0.001390MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-3.264191±0.002620MeV
"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: 271.79 days ( 2.34827×10+07 sec., λ = 2.95174×10-08 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    57
    26
    Fe
      (Q = 0.836 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    57
    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
0271 d7/2- +4.720(10) [60Co]NMR/ONJP C10 3651 (77)/Phca 57 1 (72)
4.719(12) [59Co]NMR/MEZP 270 233 (74)
4.78(6) [60Co]NMR/ONCzJP B36 1331 (86)
+0.52(9) [59Co]NMR/ONPhca 57 1 (72)
137819 ps3/2- +3.0(6) [60Co]IPADZP 233 477 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.