Basic Info

Fission Yield


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Information about Copper-67:

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When copper-67 is injected with monoclonal antibodies into a cancer patient, helps the antibodies bind to and destroy the tumor.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:66.927750±0.000009amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-67.300158±0.008149MeV
    Binding Energy:585.390537±0.008150MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.577000±0.008000MeV
"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: 61.83 h ( 222588 sec., λ = 3.11404×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    67
    30
    Zn
      (Q = 0.577 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    67
    28
    Ni
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)