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Information about Thorium-226:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:226.024891±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):23.185517±0.004958MeV
    Binding Energy:1730.521632±0.004967MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.833669±0.012184MeV
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 30.57 min ( 1834.2 sec., λ = 0.000377902 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    222
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 6.451 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    226
    89
    Ac
    E.C. from
    226
    91
    Pa
    α from
    230
    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)