36-Kr-85
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36-krypton-85

Krypton-85 is used in indicator lights in appliances like clothes washer and dryers, stereos and coffee makers... to gauge the thickness of thin plastics and sheet metal, rubber, textiles and paper... and to measure dust and pollutant levels.
  • Atomic Mass: 84.9125270 +- 0.0000032 amu
  • Excess Mass: -81480.605 +- 2.981 keV
  • Binding Energy: 739378.321 +- 2.983 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- 687.083 +- 1.949 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: 9/2+
  • Half life: 3934.4 d
  • Mode of decay: Beta to Rb-85
    • Decay energy: 0.687 MeV

    Meta state at 0.305 Mev
  • Spin: 1/2-
  • Half life: 4.480 h
  • Mode of decay: Beta to Rb-85
    • Branch ratio: 78.60 %
    • Decay energy: 0.992 MeV
  • Mode of decay: IT
    • Branch ratio: 21.40 %
    • Decay energy: 0.305 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Br-85
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
010.76 y9/2+ -1.005(2) d [83Kr]CFBLSNP A586 219 (95)
1.005(2) [83Kr]OZP 141 160 (55)
-1.0055(4) [83Kr]LRFSPR A47 1148 (93)
+0.44(5) CFBLSNP A586 219 (95)
+0.433(8) LRFSPR A47 1148 (93)
3054.48 h1/2- +0.633(2) d [83Kr]CFBLSNP A586 219 (95)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.