Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Radium-224:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:224.020202±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):18.818043±0.002662MeV
    Binding Energy:1720.311167±0.002680MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.403231±0.004186MeV
"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: 3.66 days ( 316224 sec., λ = 2.19195×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    220
    86
    Rn
      (Q = 5.789 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 14C   (Q = 30.541 MeV)   Branch ratio: 4.0E-9 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    224
    87
    Fr
    E.C. from
    224
    89
    Ac
    α from
    228
    90
    Th
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
840.74 ns2+ +0.9(2) IPACZP 260 57 (73)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.