95-Am-241
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95-americium-241
Americium -241 is used in many smoke detectors for homes and business...
to measure levels of toxic lead in dried paint samples...
to ensure uniform thickness in rolling processes like steel
and paper production...
and to help determine where oil wells should be drilled.
- Atomic Mass: 241.0568229 +- 0.0000021 amu
- Excess Mass: 52930.224 +- 1.957 keV
- Binding Energy: 1817935.000 +- 1.984 keV
- Beta Decay Energy: B- -767.357 +- 1.173 keV
"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.
- Spin: 5/2-
- Half life: 432.2 years
- Mode of decay: Alpha to Np-237
- Mode of decay: SF
Meta state at 2.200 Mev
- Half life: 1.2 us
- Mode of decay: SF
- Possible parent nuclides:
- Beta from Pu-241
- Electron capture from Cm-241
- Alpha from Bk-245
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) | T1/2 | Spin | | m(nm) | | Q(b) | | Ref. Std. | Method | Reference |
0 | 432.7 y | 5/2- | | +1.58(1) | | | | | ABLS | JRNC 143 93 (90) |
| | | | +1.61(3) | | | | | AB/D | PR 144 994 (66) |
| | | | | | +3.8(1.2) | | | R | ZP D13 181 (89) |
| | | | | | +3.14(5) | | | ABLS | JRNC 143 93 (90) |
| | | | | | +4.2(13) | | | R | ZP A330 235 (88) |
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N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published. 2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.
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