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Information about Polonium-206:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:205.980465±0.000011amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-18.196508±0.009940MeV
    Binding Energy:1615.171320±0.009944MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.713784±0.051981MeV
"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: 8.8 days ( 760320 sec., λ = 9.11652×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    206
    83
    Bi
      (Q = 1.846 MeV)   Branch ratio: 94.55 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    202
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 5.326 MeV)   Branch ratio: 5.45 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    206
    85
    At
    α from
    210
    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
1586212 ns8+ +7.34(7) SOPAD/TDPADNP A211 38 (73)/NP A206 452 (73)
1.02(4) [210Po 1557]TDPADHFI 34 47 (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.