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Information about Radium-221:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:221.013908±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):12.954995±0.007039MeV
    Binding Energy:1701.960247±0.007046MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.553717±0.050813MeV
"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: 28 s ( 28 sec., λ = 0.0247553 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    217
    86
    Rn
      (Q = 6.886 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 14C   (Q = 6.886 MeV)   Branch ratio: 1E-12 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    225
    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
030 s5/2- -0.180(2) "[213,225Ra]""CFBLS, R"NP A483 244 (88)/PRL 59 771 (87)
+1.98(11) st CFBLSZP D11 105 (89)
+1.9(2) st "CFBLS, R"NP 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.