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Information about Cobalt-61:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:60.932479±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-62.895042±0.001608MeV
    Binding Energy:534.122191±0.001610MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.321733±0.000859MeV
"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: 1.650 h ( 5940 sec., λ = 0.000116691 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    61
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 1.322 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    61
    26
    Fe
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)