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Information about Iridium-189:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:188.958716±0.000014amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-38.455352±0.012952MeV
    Binding Energy:1503.694151±0.012954MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.970508±0.013946MeV
"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: 3/2+
  • Half life: 13.2 days ( 1.14048×10+06 sec., λ = 6.07768×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    189
    76
    Os
      (Q = 0.532 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.372 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2- 13.2
  • Half life: 13.3 ms ( 0.0133 sec., λ = 52.1163 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.372 MeV)
    Meta state at 2.333 Mev
  • Spin: 25/2+) 13.3
  • Half life: 3.7 ms ( 0.0037 sec., λ = 187.337 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.333 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    189
    78
    Pt
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
013.1 d3/2+ "0.13(+8,-4)" [188Ir]NO/SJP G6 775 (80)
+0.878(10) NMR/ONPRL 77 5016 (96)
+0.79(6) [Ir188]NO/SNIMPR A316 158 (92)
+1.0(2) [192Ir]NO/SHFI 22 19 (85)/Th Schneider (80)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.