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Information about Osmium-179:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:178.953951±0.000252amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):-42.894000±0.234000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1428.202000±0.234000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:-4.842000±0.464000MeV #
"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: 6.5 min ( 390 sec., λ = 0.0017773 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    179
    75
    Re
      (Q = 3.680 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    179
    77
    Ir
    α from
    183
    78
    Pt
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)