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Information about Radium-222:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:222.015362±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):14.309441±0.004942MeV
    Binding Energy:1708.677123±0.004951MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.298025±0.006672MeV
"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: 38.0 s ( 38 sec., λ = 0.0182407 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    218
    86
    Rn
      (Q = 6.681 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 14C   (Q = 33.053 MeV)   Branch ratio: 3.0E-8 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    222
    87
    Fr
    α from
    226
    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)