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Information about Promethium-147:

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Promethium-147 is used in electric blanket thermostats...and to gauge the thickness of thin plastics, thin sheet metal, rubber, textiles, and paper.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:146.915134±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-79.052253±0.002890MeV
    Binding Energy:1217.813148±0.002897MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.224139±0.000301MeV
"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: 7/2+
  • Half life: 2.6234 years ( 8.2742×10+07 sec., λ = 8.37721×10-09 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    147
    62
    Sm
      (Q = 0.224 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    147
    60
    Nd
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
02.623 y7/2+ +2.58(7) OPR 141 1123 (66)
+0.7(2) OPR 141 1123 (66)
0.59(16) "AB, R"PR 141 1123 (66)
912.5 ns5/2+ +3.22(16) [147Pm]MEPL 32B 678 (70)
3.55(10) [147Pm]MEPL 32B 678 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.