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Information about Tantalum-177:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:176.944472±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-51.724209±0.003919MeV
    Binding Energy:1423.236548±0.003927MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.001000±0.298000MeV #
"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: 7/2+
  • Half life: 56.56 h ( 203616 sec., λ = 3.40419×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    177
    72
    Hf
      (Q = 1.166 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    177
    74
    W
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
056.6 h7/2+ 2.25(5) [181Ta]NMR/ONJPJa 53 2479 (84)
2.25(5) [181Ta]NMR/ONNP A413 247 (84)
7073 ns5/2+ +4.8(5) PPDACNP A272 47 (76)/NIM 119 477 (74)
1862.78 ms5/2- +2.05(13) TDPACIzF 42 2286 (78)
13555.0 ms21/2- +0.080(14) IPADNP A381 13 (82)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.