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Information about Thorium-225:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:225.023941±0.000008amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):22.301306±0.007352MeV
    Binding Energy:1723.334520±0.007358MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.024817±0.071319MeV
"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: 8.72 min ( 523.2 sec., λ = 0.00132482 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    221
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 6.922 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~90.00 %
  • Mode of decay: E.C. to
    225
    89
    Ac
      (Q = 0.675 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~10.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    229
    92
    U
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)