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Information about Cobalt-63:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:62.933615±0.000022amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-61.837017±0.020052MeV
    Binding Energy:549.206812±0.020052MeV
    β- Decay Energy:3.672200±0.020001MeV
"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: 27.4 s ( 27.4 sec., λ = 0.0252973 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    63
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 3.672 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    63
    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)