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Information about Sodium-21:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:20.997655±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-2.184261±0.000700MeV
    Binding Energy:163.076152±0.000700MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-13.095942±0.016431MeV
"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: 22.49 s ( 22.49 sec., λ = 0.0308202 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    21
    10
    Ne
      (Q = 3.547 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    21
    12
    Mg
    E.C. +
    1
    1
    p+ from
    22
    13
    Al
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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
022.5 s3/2+ +2.83630(10) [23Na]ABPR 137 B1157 (65)
+0.05(4) ABLSPR C25 2756 (82)
3326.9 ps5/2+ 3.7(3) RIV/DPR C16 679 (77)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.