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Information about Polonium-203:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:202.981413±0.000071amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-17.313804±0.065721MeV
    Binding Energy:1590.074648±0.065722MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.062066±0.124897MeV
"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: 36.7 min ( 2202 sec., λ = 0.000314781 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    203
    83
    Bi
      (Q = 4.230 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.89 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    199
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 5.496 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.11 %
    Meta state at 0.641 Mev
  • Spin: 13/2+ 36.7
  • Half life: 45 s ( 45 sec., λ = 0.0154033 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.641 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~100.00 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    199
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 6.137 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~0.04 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    203
    85
    At
    α from
    207
    86
    Rn
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
036.7 m5/2- 0.74(6) NO/SJP G17 1673 (91)
(+)0.74(3) NO/SCf87Melb. 174 (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.