Information about Cobalt-59:


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Mass-Energy Data:

Atomic Mass:	58.933200	±	0.000002	amu
Excess Mass (Δ):	-62.223609	±	0.001420	MeV
Binding Energy:	517.308113	±	0.001422	MeV
β^- Decay Energy:	-1.072484	±	0.000561	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:

Atomic Percent Abundance: 100%
Spin: 7/2-
Stable Isotope
Possible parent nuclides:
β^- from
59
26
Fe

E.C. from
59
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)	T_1/2	Spin	m(nm)	Q(b)	Ref. Std.	Method	Reference
0	stable	7/2-	+4.627(9)			N	PR 162 301 (67)/PR 81 20 (51)
				+0.35(3)		LRFS	ZP D17 181 (90)
				+0.41(1)		R	PR A48 2752 (93)
				+0.40(4)		AB	ZP 159 230 (60)
				+0.42(3) st		O	JPJa 27 1690 (69)
1292	555 ps	3/2-	+2.54(12)			IPAC	PS 9 79 (74)

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