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Information about Osmium-189:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:188.958145±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-38.987800±0.002787MeV
    Binding Energy:1505.008952±0.002799MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.532448±0.012714MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 16.1%
  • Spin: 3/2-
  • Stable Isotope
    Meta state at 0.031 Mev
  • Spin: 9/2-
  • Half life: 5.8 h ( 20880 sec., λ = 3.31967×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.031 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    189
    75
    Re
    E.C. from
    189
    77
    Ir
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
0stable3/2- +0.659933(4) [1H]NPL 26A 258 (68)/PR 95 291 (54)
+0.86(3) [188Os 155]MEZP 254 112 (72)
360.50 ns1/2- +0.23(3) [189Os]MEPL 28B 548 (69)
701.63 ns5/2- +0.988(6) [189Os]ME/IPACZP 254 112 (72)/PR 174 1509 (68)
/IzF 35 2295 (71)
-0.63(2) [189Os]MEZP 254 112 (72)
950.23 ns3/2- -0.32(5) IPACIzF 35 2295 (71)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.