96-Cm-246
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96-curium-246

  • Atomic Mass: 246.0672176 +- 0.0000024 amu
  • Excess Mass: 62612.736 +- 2.201 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1847826.748 +- 2.225 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -1350.000 +- 60.000 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: 4760 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Pu-242
    • Branch ratio: 99.97 %
    • Decay energy: 5.475 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 0.03 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Am-246
    Electron capture from Bk-246
    Alpha from Cf-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)