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Information about Mercury-197:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:196.967195±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-30.557346±0.004302MeV
    Binding Energy:1558.019667±0.004310MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.180503±0.032216MeV
"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: 64.14 h ( 230904 sec., λ = 3.00188×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    197
    79
    Au
      (Q = 0.600 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.298 Mev
  • Spin: 13/2+ 64.14
  • Half life: 23.8 h ( 85680 sec., λ = 8.08995×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.299 MeV)   Branch ratio: 91.40 %
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    197
    79
    Au
      (Q = 0.899 MeV)   Branch ratio: 8.60 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    197
    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
064.1 h1/2- +0.5273744(9) d [199Hg]NMR/OPPR C7 2065 (73)
1348.1 ns5/2- +0.855(15) [199Hg 158]TDPACZP A283 337 (77)
-0.081(6) [199Hg 158]"TDPAC, PPDAC"NP A337 261 (77)/HFI 9 105 (81)
0.080(10) [197Hg 299]"TDPAD, NO, R"NP A337 261 (77)
29923.8 h13/2+ -1.027684(3) d [199Hg]NMR/OPPR C7 2065 (73)
+1.24(14) 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.