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Information about Polonium-204:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:203.980307±0.000014amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-18.343803±0.013396MeV
    Binding Energy:1599.175970±0.013399MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-6.478024±0.093762MeV
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 3.53 h ( 12708 sec., λ = 5.45442×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    204
    83
    Bi
      (Q = 2.340 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.34 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    200
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 5.485 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.66 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    204
    85
    At
    α from
    208
    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
1639158 ns8+ +7.38(10) SOPADNP A206 452 (73)
1.14(5) [210Po 1557]TDPADHFI 34 47 (87)
356512 ns15- 5.6(6) [208Po 1524]TDPADZP A305 1 (82)/ZP A311 351 (83)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.