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Information about Mercury-206:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:205.977499±0.000022amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-20.959849±0.020612MeV
    Binding Energy:1621.064075±0.020614MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.307213±0.020411MeV
"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: 8.15 min ( 489 sec., λ = 0.00141748 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    206
    81
    Tl
      (Q = 1.308 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    210
    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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
21022.15 ms5- +5.45(5) TDPADPR C26 914 (82)
0.74(15) [199Hg 158]TDPADPR C30 1702 (84)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.