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Information about Xenon-121:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:120.911386±0.000026amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-82.542934±0.024487MeV
    Binding Energy:1016.925910±0.024487MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-5.400000±0.020000MeV
"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: 40.1 min ( 2406 sec., λ = 0.000288091 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    121
    53
    I
      (Q = 3.730 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    121
    55
    Cs
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
039 m5/2+ -0.701(3) d [129Xe]CFBLSPC Neugart (90)
-0.65(3) NO/SCf86Dubr 658 (86)
+1.33(5) [131Xe]CFBLSPC Neugart (90)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.