20-Ca-42
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 element
20-calcium-42

  • Atomic Mass: 41.9586183 +- 0.0000004 amu
  • Excess Mass: -38546.765 +- 0.378 keV
  • Binding Energy: 361895.254 +- 0.382 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -6425.839 +- 0.128 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.
  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 0.647%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from K-42
    Electron capture from Sc-42
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
15250.82 ps2+ -0.19(8) CERNP A204 574 (73)
31895.3 ns6+ -2.49(9) TDPADPRL 35 497 (75)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.