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Information about Sulfur-40:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:39.975470±0.000250amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-22.849544±0.232873MeV
    Binding Energy:333.184802±0.232873MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.708184±0.235071MeV
"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: 8.8 s ( 8.8 sec., λ = 0.0787667 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    40
    17
    Cl
      (Q = 4.710 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    40
    15
    P
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    41
    15
    P
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)