element
Information about Potassium-49:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:48.967450±0.000075amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-30.320047±0.070124MeV
    Binding Energy:410.950150±0.070124MeV
    β- Decay Energy:10.970000±0.070000MeV
"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: 1.26 s ( 1.26 sec., λ = 0.550117 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    49
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 10.970 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    48
    20
    Ca
      (Q = 5.820 MeV)   Branch ratio: 86.00 %
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)