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Information about Polonium-212:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:211.988852±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-10.384522±0.002909MeV
    Binding Energy:1655.787271±0.002922MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.753912±0.002874MeV
"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: 0.299 µs ( 2.99×10-07 sec., λ = 2.31822×10+06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    208
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 8.954 MeV)
    Meta state at 1.355 Mev
  • Spin: 6+ 0.299
  • Half life: 0.76 ns ( 7.6×10+08 sec., λ = 9.12036×10-10 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    208
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 10.310 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~71.00 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    212
    84
    Po
      (Q = 1.355 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~29.00 %
    Meta state at 1.476 Mev
  • Spin: 8+ 0.76
  • Half life: 17.1 ns ( 1.71×10+10 sec., λ = 4.05349×10-11 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    212
    84
    Po
      (Q = 1.476 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~58.00 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    208
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 10.430 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~42.00 %
    Meta state at 2.922 Mev
  • Spin: (18+) 17.1
  • Half life: 45.1 s ( 45.1 sec., λ = 0.0153691 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    208
    82
    Pb
      (Q = 11.876 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.93 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    212
    84
    Po
      (Q = 2.922 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.07 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    212
    83
    Bi
    α from
    216
    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)