element
Information about Iron-59:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:58.934880±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-60.658421±0.001397MeV
    Binding Energy:516.525278±0.001399MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.565188±0.000622MeV
"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: 44.503 days ( 3.84506×10+06 sec., λ = 1.8027×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    59
    27
    Co
      (Q = 1.565 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    59
    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
044.6 d3/2- -0.3358(4) NMR/ON(b)PR C54 554 (96)
0.29(3) NO/SPR C14 653 (76)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.