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Information about Mercury-183:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:182.974561±0.000320amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-23.696000±0.298000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1438.160000±0.298000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:-7.578000±0.493000MeV #
"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: 9.4 s ( 9.4 sec., λ = 0.0737391 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    183
    79
    Au
      (Q = 6.500 MeV)   Branch ratio: 74.50 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    179
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 6.039 MeV)   Branch ratio: 25.50 %
  • Mode of decay: E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ to
    182
    78
    Pt
      (Q = 5.100 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.00056 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    187
    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
08.8 s1/2- +0.524(5) b-NMR/OPZP A276 203 (76)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.