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Information about Radium-209:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:209.001944±0.000134amu #
    Excess Mass (Δ):1.811000±0.125000MeV #
    Binding Energy:1616.249000±0.125000MeV #
    β- Decay Energy:-7.103000±0.273000MeV #
"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: 5/2-
  • Half life: 4.6 s ( 4.6 sec., λ = 0.150684 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    205
    86
    Rn
      (Q = 7.150 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~90.00 %
  • Mode of decay: E.C. to
    209
    87
    Fr
      (Q = 5.610 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~10.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    213
    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
04.7 s5/2- +0.865(13) "[213,225Ra]""CFBLS, R"NP A483 244 (88)/PRL 59 771 (87)
+0.40(4) st "[221,223Ra]"CFBLSZP D11 105 (89)
+0.38(4) st CFBLSNP A483 244 (88)/ZP D4 227 (87)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.