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Information about Potassium-54:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:53.993990±0.000970amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-5.598000±0.904000MeV #
    Binding Energy:426.585000±0.904000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:17.987000±1.142000MeV #
"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:

  • Half life: 10 ms ( 0.01 sec., λ = 69.3147 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: β- to
    54
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 18.000 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    53
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 14.200 MeV)   Branch ratio: >0.00 %
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)