Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Radium-226:

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Radium-226 makes lightning rods more effective.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:226.025403±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):23.662324±0.002500MeV
    Binding Energy:1731.609532±0.002520MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.640210±0.003273MeV
"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: 1600 years ( 5.0464×10+10 sec., λ = 1.37355×10-11 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    222
    86
    Rn
      (Q = 4.871 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: 14C   (Q = 28.199 MeV)   Branch ratio: 3.2E-9 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    226
    87
    Fr
    E.C. from
    226
    89
    Ac
    α from
    230
    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)