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Information about Potassium-48:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:47.965513±0.000026amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-32.124479±0.024117MeV
    Binding Energy:404.683259±0.024117MeV
    β- Decay Energy:12.090263±0.023757MeV
"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: 6.8 s ( 6.8 sec., λ = 0.101933 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    48
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 12.090 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    47
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 2.144 MeV)   Branch ratio: 1.14 %
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)