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Information about Mendelevium-256:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:256.094053±0.000057amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):87.609566±0.052822MeV
    Binding Energy:1899.631379±0.052823MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.207836±0.053351MeV
"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: 0-,1-)
  • Half life: 76 min ( 4560 sec., λ = 0.000152006 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    256
    100
    Fm
      (Q = 2.130 MeV)   Branch ratio: 90.70 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    252
    99
    Es
      (Q = 7.897 MeV)   Branch ratio: 9.30 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: <3.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    260
    103
    Lr
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)