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Information about Francium-220:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:220.012313±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):11.469463±0.004623MeV
    Binding Energy:1696.156808±0.004632MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.209367±0.010663MeV
"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: 1+
  • Half life: 27.4 s ( 27.4 sec., λ = 0.0252973 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    216
    85
    At
      (Q = 6.801 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.65 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    220
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 1.209 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.35 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    224
    89
    Ac
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
027.4 s1+ -0.67(1) [211Fr]CFBLSEPL 3 175 (87)
-0.67(1) [211Fr]ABLSPL 163B 66 (85)
+0.47(3) st "ABLS, R"PL 163B 66 (85)/NP A468 1 (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.