6-C-14
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 element
6-carbon-14

Carbon-14 helps in research to ensure that potential new drugs are metabolized without forming harmful by-products.
  • Atomic Mass: 14.0032420 +- 0.0000000 amu
  • Excess Mass: 3019.892 +- 0.004 keV
  • Binding Energy: 105284.507 +- 0.019 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- 156.475 +- 0.004 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: 5730 years
  • Mode of decay: Beta to N-14
    • Decay energy: 0.156 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from B-14
    Beta + Alpha from N-18
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
672867 ps3- 0.82(2) RIV/DPR C9 1748 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.