Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Cobalt-68:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:67.944360±0.000350amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-51.828318±0.326023MeV
    Binding Energy:579.554727±0.326023MeV
    β- Decay Energy:11.657709±0.326440MeV
"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:

  • Half life: 0.18 s ( 0.18 sec., λ = 3.85082 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: β- to
    68
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 11.700 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)