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Information about Mercury-186:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:185.969460±0.000217amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-28.447803±0.201979MeV
    Binding Energy:1467.125573±0.201979MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-8.466000±0.305000MeV #
"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: 1.38 min ( 82.8 sec., λ = 0.00837134 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    186
    79
    Au
      (Q = 3.230 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.98 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    182
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 5.206 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.02 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    186
    81
    Tl
    α from
    190
    82
    Pb
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)