Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Tin-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.904237±0.000003amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-89.202770±0.002487MeV
    Binding Energy:1026.715160±0.002493MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.390131±0.002081MeV
"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: 3/2+
  • Half life: 27.06 h ( 97416 sec., λ = 7.11533×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    121
    51
    Sb
      (Q = 0.388 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.006 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2- 27.06
  • Half life: 55 years ( 1.7347×10+09 sec., λ = 3.99578×10-10 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.006 MeV)   Branch ratio: 77.60 %
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    121
    51
    Sb
      (Q = 0.394 MeV)   Branch ratio: 22.40 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    121
    49
    In
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
027.1 h3/2+ +0.6978(10) "[115,7,9Sn]"ABLRFSPR C34 1052 (86)
-0.02(2) ABLRFSPR C34 1052 (86)
6.355 y11/2- -1.3877(9) [119Sn]ABLRFSPR C34 1052 (86)
-0.14(3) ABLRFSPR C34 1052 (86)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.