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Information about Mercury-199:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:198.968262±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-29.563297±0.002932MeV
    Binding Energy:1573.168263±0.002943MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.445071±0.098504MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 16.87%
  • Spin: 1/2-
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 0.532 Mev
  • Spin: 13/2+
  • Half life: 42.6 min ( 2556 sec., λ = 0.000271184 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.532 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    199
    79
    Au
    E.C. from
    199
    81
    Tl
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
0stable1/2- +0.5058855(9) [1H]NMR/OPAnP 6 467 (61)
1582.45 ns5/2- +0.88(3) TDPACZP A283 337 (77)
+0.91(9) IPACZP A283 337 (77)
+0.60(15) [198Hg 412]TFNP A448 123 (86)
+0.8(4) "ME, R"HFI 23 259 (85)/ZP A293 219 (79)
+0.85(12) a Mu-XPR C27 816 (83)
+0.95(7) a Mu-XNP A314 361 (79)
0.70(9) st [201Hg]"TDPAC, Q"JCP 59 3339 (73)
20869 ps3/2- -0.56(9) [199Hg 158]TFHFI 59 129 (90)
-0.29(15) [198Hg 412]TFNP A448 123 (86)
-0.47(8) IMPACNP A448 123 (86)
+0.50(12) a Mu-XPR C27 816 (83)
+0.62(15) a Mu-XNP A314 361 (79)
41497 ps5/2- +0.80(9) [199Hg 158]TFHFI 59 129 (90)
-0.7(3) [198Hg 412]TFNP A448 123 (86)
53242.6 m13/2+ -1.014703(3) [199Hg]b-NMR/OPPR C7 2065 (73)
+1.2(5) st [201Hg]b-NMR/OPZP A325 247 (86)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.