88-Ra-226
 basic
 n-XS summary
 XS graphs

 element
88-radium-226

Radium-226 makes lightning rods more effective.
  • Atomic Mass: 226.0254026 +- 0.0000027 amu
  • Excess Mass: 23662.324 +- 2.500 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1731609.532 +- 2.520 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -640.210 +- 3.273 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: 0+
  • Half life: 1600 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Rn-222
    • Decay energy: 4.871 MeV
  • Mode of decay: 14C
    • Branch ratio: 3.2E-9 %
    • Decay energy: 28.199 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Fr-226
    Electron capture from Ac-226
    Alpha from Th-230
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)