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Information about Nickel-63:

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Nickel-63 is used to detect explosives...and as voltage regulators and current surge protectors in electronic devices.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:62.929673±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-65.509217±0.001435MeV
    Binding Energy:552.096659±0.001437MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.066945±0.000005MeV
"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: 1/2-
  • Half life: 100.1 years ( 3.15715×10+09 sec., λ = 2.19548×10-10 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    63
    29
    Cu
      (Q = 0.067 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    63
    27
    Co
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
871.72 ms5/2- +0.752(3) [19F 197]TDPADPL 32B 41 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.