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Information about Mendelevium-255:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:255.091075±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):84.835986±0.007049MeV
    Binding Energy:1894.333637±0.007058MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.009468±0.011342MeV
"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: (7/2-)
  • Half life: 27 min ( 1620 sec., λ = 0.000427869 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    255
    100
    Fm
      (Q = 1.043 MeV)   Branch ratio: 92.00 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    251
    99
    Es
      (Q = 7.907 MeV)   Branch ratio: 8.00 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   (Q = 7.907 MeV)   Branch ratio: <=0.15 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    255
    102
    No
    α from
    259
    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)