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Information about Tellurium-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.904930±0.000027amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-88.557294±0.025216MeV
    Binding Energy:1024.504976±0.025216MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.269350±0.026086MeV
"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: 1/2+
  • Half life: 16.78 days ( 1.44979×10+06 sec., λ = 4.78101×10-07 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    51
    Sb
      (Q = 1.040 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.294 Mev
  • Spin: 11/2- 16.78
  • Half life: 154 days ( 1.33056×10+07 sec., λ = 5.20944×10-08 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.294 MeV)   Branch ratio: 88.60 %
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    51
    Sb
      (Q = 1.334 MeV)   Branch ratio: 11.40 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    121
    53
    I
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
294154 d11/2- 0.895(10) [125Te 36]NMR/ONPR 36 2097 (87)
44383.5 ns7/2+ +0.738(10) TDPADPL 90B 65 (80)
+0.774(11) TDPADCf86Bang A4 (86)
+0.63(7) TDPADZP A299 251 (81)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.