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Information about Potassium-43:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:42.960716±0.000010amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-36.593042±0.008957MeV
    Binding Energy:368.795208±0.008957MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.815400±0.008944MeV
"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: 22.3 h ( 80280 sec., λ = 8.63412×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    43
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 1.815 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    43
    18
    Ar
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
022.3 h3/2+ +0.1633(8) [39K)"ABLS, R"PL 108B 169 (82)/JPPa 43 509 (82)
738202 ns7/2- +4.43(5) TDPADHFI 15 59 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.