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Information about Protactinium-229:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:229.032089±0.000010amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):29.890335±0.009028MeV
    Binding Energy:1747.248429±0.009033MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.311112±0.011245MeV
"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: (5/2+)
  • Half life: 1.50 days ( 129600 sec., λ = 5.34836×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    229
    90
    Th
      (Q = 0.316 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.52 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    225
    89
    Ac
      (Q = 5.841 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.48 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    229
    92
    U
    α from
    233
    93
    Np
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)