98-Cf-246
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 element
98-californium-246

  • Atomic Mass: 246.0687988 +- 0.0000024 amu
  • Excess Mass: 64085.667 +- 2.221 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1844789.111 +- 2.246 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -3880.000 +- 224.000 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: 35.7 h
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Cm-242
    • Decay energy: 6.862 MeV
  • Mode of decay: EC to Bk-246
    • Branch ratio: <0.0040 %
    • Decay energy: 0.120 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 0.00025 %

    Meta state at 2.500 Mev
  • Half life: 45 ns
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: <=100.00 %
    • Decay energy: 0 0.000 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Alpha from Fm-250
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)