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Information about Chromium-51:

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Chromium-51 is used in research in red blood cell survival studies.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:50.944772±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-51.444760±0.001313MeV
    Binding Energy:444.305741±0.001315MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-3.207804±0.000487MeV
"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: 27.7025 days ( 2.3935×10+06 sec., λ = 2.89596×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    51
    23
    V
      (Q = 0.753 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    51
    25
    Mn
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)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
027.7 d7/2- (-)0.934(5) [53Cr]ABArkF 40 457 (70)
7497.25 ns3/2- -0.86(12) [19F 197]TDPADIzF 38 155 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.