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Information about Sodium-31:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:31.013595±0.000177amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):12.663760±0.164595MeV
    Binding Energy:228.941360±0.164595MeV
    β- Decay Energy:15.878849±0.181173MeV
"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: 17.0 ms ( 0.017 sec., λ = 40.7734 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    31
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 15.880 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    30
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 13.470 MeV)   Branch ratio: 37.00 %
  • Mode of decay: β- + 2
    1
    0
    n to
    29
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 7.180 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.90 %
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
017 ms(3/2) +2.305(8) [23Na]"ABLS,R"PR C18 2342 (78)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.