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Information about Copper-59:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:58.939504±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-56.351547±0.001683MeV
    Binding Energy:509.871344±0.001684MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-9.094138±0.037139MeV
"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: 3/2-
  • Half life: 81.5 s ( 81.5 sec., λ = 0.00850487 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    59
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 4.800 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    59
    30
    Zn
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)