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Information about Terbium-150:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:149.923654±0.000009amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-71.115684±0.008269MeV
    Binding Energy:1230.961133±0.008271MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.793657±0.008907MeV
"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: (2-)
  • Half life: 3.48 h ( 12528 sec., λ = 5.53278×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    150
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 4.656 MeV)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    146
    63
    Eu
      (Q = 3.587 MeV)   Branch ratio: <0.05 %
    Meta state at 0.474 Mev
  • Spin: 9+ 3.48
  • Half life: 5.8 min ( 348 sec., λ = 0.0019918 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    150
    64
    Gd
      (Q = 5.130 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~100.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    150
    66
    Dy
    α from
    154
    67
    Ho
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
0 + x3.48 h2(-) -0.90(2) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
0.00(13) [159Tb]CFBLSZP A337 367 (90)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.