Basic Info
n-XS summary
element
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Information about Radium-226:
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Radium-226 makes lightning rods more effective.
Mass-Energy Data:
Atomic Mass: | 226.025403 | ± | 0.000003 | amu |
Excess Mass (Δ): | 23.662324 | ± | 0.002500 | MeV |
Binding Energy: | 1731.609532 | ± | 0.002520 | MeV |
β- Decay Energy: | -0.640210 | ± | 0.003273 | MeV |
"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
 (Q = 4.871 MeV)
- Mode of decay: 14C
 (Q = 28.199 MeV)
Branch ratio: 3.2E-9 %
- Possible parent nuclides:
- β- from
- E.C. from
- α from
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)
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