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Information about Francium-222:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:222.017544±0.000023amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):16.342089±0.021100MeV
    Binding Energy:1707.426829±0.021102MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.032647±0.021474MeV
"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: 14.2 min ( 852 sec., λ = 0.000813553 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    222
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 2.033 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    226
    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
014.2 m2- +0.63(1) [211Fr]ABLSPL 163B 66 (85)
+0.51(4) st [211Fr]ABLSPL 163B 66 (85)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.