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Information about Germanium-68:


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Mass-Energy Data:

Atomic Mass:	67.928097	±	0.000007	amu
Excess Mass (Δ):	-66.976955	±	0.006383	MeV
Binding Energy:	590.791597	±	0.006384	MeV
β^- Decay Energy:	-8.100000	±	0.100000	MeV

"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: 0+
Half life: 270.8 days ( 2.33971×10⁺⁰⁷ sec., λ = 2.96253×10^-08 s^-1)
Mode of decay:
E.C.
to
68
31
Ga
(Q = 0.106 MeV)
Possible parent nuclides:
E.C. from
68
33
As

E.C. +
1
1
p⁺ from
69
34
Se

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)	T_1/2	Spin	m(nm)	Q(b)	Ref. Std.	Method	Reference
3696	0.48 ps	6+	+2.4#		[estimate]	TF	JP G12 L295 (86)
3883	132 ps	6-	0.53(11)		[74Ge 596]	RIGV	JP G8 1397 (82)
4054	118 ps	7-	0.78(12)		[74Ge 596]	RIGV	JP G8 1397 (82)
4838	1.04 ps	8+	+0.8(3)		[68Ge 3696]	TF	JP G12 L295 (86)
5050	0.49 ps	8+	-2.2(11)		[68Ge 3696]	TF	JP G12 L295 (86)

N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published. 2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.