Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Thorium-230:

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Thorium-230 provides coloring and fluorescence in colored glazes and glassware.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:230.033127±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):30.857201±0.002017MeV
    Binding Energy:1755.135239±0.002042MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.309668±0.002837MeV
"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: 75380 years ( 2.37749×10+12 sec., λ = 2.91546×10-13 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    226
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 4.770 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   (Q = 1 0.000 MeV)   Branch ratio: <=5.E-11 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    230
    89
    Ac
    E.C. from
    230
    91
    Pa
    α from
    234
    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)