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Information about Hydrogen-3:

(no NIST x-ray data)(no NIST attenuation data)
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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:3.016049±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):14.949794±0.000001MeV
    Binding Energy:8.481821±0.000004MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.018591±0.000001MeV
"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: 1/2+
  • Half life: 12.33 years ( 3.88888×10+08 sec., λ = 1.78238×10-09 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    3
    2
    He
      (Q = 0.019 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    1
    0
    n emission from
    4
    1
    H
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
012.33 y1/2+ +2.97896244(4) [1H]"N,R"ZETF 72 1659 (77)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.