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Information about Sodium-24:

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Sodium-24 is used to locate leaks in industrial pipelines... and in oil well studies.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:23.990963±0.000000amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-8.417601±0.000216MeV
    Binding Energy:193.523461±0.000218MeV
    β- Decay Energy:5.515780±0.000156MeV
"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: 4+
  • Half life: 14.9590 h ( 53852.4 sec., λ = 1.28712×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    24
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 5.516 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.472 Mev
  • Spin: 1+ 14.9590
  • Half life: 20.20 ms ( 0.0202 sec., λ = 34.3142 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.472 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.95 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    24
    12
    Mg
      (Q = 5.988 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.05 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    24
    10
    Ne
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
015.0 h4+ +1.6903(8) AB/DPR 150 933 (66)/BAPS 18 727 (73)
42720.2 ms1+ -1.931(3) b-NMRPL B94 28 (80)
PL B88 242 (79)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.