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Information about Cobalt-58:


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Mass-Energy Data:

Atomic Mass:	57.935758	±	0.000002	amu
Excess Mass (Δ):	-59.841428	±	0.001727	MeV
Binding Energy:	506.854609	±	0.001729	MeV
β^- Decay Energy:	0.381586	±	0.001158	MeV

"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: 70.86 days ( 6.1223×10⁺⁰⁶ sec., λ = 1.13217×10^-07 s^-1)
Mode of decay:
E.C.
to
58
26
Fe
(Q = 2.307 MeV)
Meta state at 0.024 Mev
Spin: 5+ 70.86
Half life: 9.04 h ( 32544 sec., λ = 2.12988×10^-05 s^-1)
Mode of decay: γ (IT) (Q = 0.025 MeV)

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)	T_1/2	Spin	m(nm)	Q(b)	Ref. Std.	Method	Reference
0	70.8 d	2+	+4.044(8)		[59Co]	NMR/ON	Phca 57 1 (72)
			+4.040(14)		[59Co]	EPR	PR 108 60 (57)
				+0.22(3)	[59Co]	NMR/ON	Phca 57 1 (72)
53	10.4 ms	4+	+4.184(8)			SOPAD	NP A151 193 (70)
111	0.18 ns	3+	+2.2(4)			IPAD	NP A194 (249 (72)

N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published. 2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.