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Information about Thulium-159:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:158.934809±0.000070amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-60.725048±0.065320MeV
    Binding Energy:1290.082990±0.065321MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-4.978620±0.090441MeV
"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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 9.13 min ( 547.8 sec., λ = 0.00126533 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    159
    68
    Er
      (Q = 3.850 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    159
    70
    Yb
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
09.0 m5/2+ +3.42(3) [169Tm]LRIMSNP A477 37 (88)
+1.93(7) st [170Tm]LRIMSNP A477 37 (88)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.