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Information about Potassium-36:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:35.981293±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-17.425078±0.007785MeV
    Binding Energy:293.127984±0.007785MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-10.985879±0.040752MeV
"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: 2+
  • Half life: 342 ms ( 0.342 sec., λ = 2.02675 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    36
    18
    Ar
      (Q = 12.805 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ to
    35
    17
    Cl
      (Q = 4.299 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.05 %
  • Mode of decay: E.C. + α to
    32
    16
    S
      (Q = 6.166 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.0034 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    36
    20
    Ca
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
00.34 s2+ (+)0.548(1) [39K]OP/RDNP A246 187 (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.