Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Thorium-232:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:232.038050±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):35.443677±0.002036MeV
    Binding Energy:1766.691409±0.002061MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.494958±0.007826MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 100%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Half life: 1.405E10 years ( 4.43137×10+17 sec., λ = 1.56418×10-18 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    228
    88
    Ra
      (Q = 4.083 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: <1.0E-9 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    232
    89
    Ac
    E.C. from
    232
    91
    Pa
    α from
    236
    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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
gsband g(18-24)>g(10-16) TFPRL 48 383 (82)
g(av)=0.28(2)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.