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Information about Copper-60:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:59.937368±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-58.341209±0.002505MeV
    Binding Energy:519.932329±0.002506MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-4.158103±0.010752MeV
"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: 2+
  • Half life: 23.7 min ( 1422 sec., λ = 0.000487445 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    60
    28
    Ni
      (Q = 6.127 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    60
    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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
023.4 m2+ +1.219(3) [63Cu]ABPR 169 917 (68)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.