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Information about Polonium-210:


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Polonium-210 reduces the static charge in production of photographic film and phonograph records.

Mass-Energy Data:

Atomic Mass:	209.982857	±	0.000003	amu
Excess Mass (Δ):	-15.968230	±	0.002909	MeV
Binding Energy:	1645.228334	±	0.002922	MeV
β^- Decay Energy:	-3.981123	±	0.007745	MeV

"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: 138.376 days ( 1.19557×10⁺⁰⁷ sec., λ = 5.79764×10^-08 s^-1)
Mode of decay:
α
to
206
82
Pb
(Q = 5.407 MeV)
Possible parent nuclides:
β^- from
210
83
Bi

E.C. from
210
85
At

α from
214
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)	T_1/2	Spin	m(nm)	Q(b)	Ref. Std.	Method	Reference
1473	43 ns	6+	5.48(5)			TDPAD	NP A273 253 (76)
1557	96 ns	8+	+7.35(5)			TDPAD	NP A273 253 (76)/PL 44B 440 (73)
				(-)0.57(2)	est. from B(E2)	not measured	HFI 34 47 (87)/NP A394 245 (83)
2849	20.1 ns	11-	+12.20(9)			TDPAD	NP A273 253 (76)/PS 14 95 (76)
				-0.86(11)	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	NP A522 483 (91)
				-0.8(2)	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	NP A394 245 (83)
4372	51 ns	13-	6.8(2)			TDPAD	PS 31 333 (85)
				-0.90(7)	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	NP A522 483 (91)
				"(-)0,62(11)"	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	NP A394 245 (83)
5058	265 ns	16+	9.84(8)			TDPAD	PS 31 333 (85)
				-1.30(2)	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	NP A522 483 (91)
				1.34(8)	[210Po 1557]	TDPAD	BAPS 31 1236 (86)

N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published. 2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.