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Information about Mercury-205:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:204.976056±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-22.303593±0.004675MeV
    Binding Energy:1614.336496±0.004683MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.531220±0.003789MeV
"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: 5.2 min ( 312 sec., λ = 0.00222163 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    205
    81
    Tl
      (Q = 1.531 MeV)
    Meta state at 1.556 Mev
  • Spin: 13/2+) 5.2
  • Half life: 1.10 ms ( 0.0011 sec., λ = 630.134 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    205
    80
    Hg
      (Q = 1.556 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    205
    79
    Au
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
05.2 m1/2- +0.60089(10) [199Hg]b-NMR/OPZP A272 369 (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.