53-I-129
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53-iodine-129

Iodine-129 is used to check some radioactivity counters in vitro diagnostic testing laboratories.
  • Atomic Mass: 128.9049875 +- 0.0000036 amu
  • Excess Mass: -88503.573 +- 3.400 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1088239.485 +- 3.405 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- 193.777 +- 3.390 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: 7/2+
  • Half life: 15700000 years
  • Mode of decay: Beta to Xe-129
    • Decay energy: 0.194 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Te-129
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
01.6x10*7 y7/2+ +2.6210(3) [2H]NPR 82 97 (51)
-0.482(10) [127I]"Q, MA, R"PR 90 609 (53)/PR B61 13588 (00)
2816.8 ns5/2+ +2.805(3) [129I]MEPL 106B 457 (79)
-0.42(2) MEJP B20 5595 (87)
-0.598(13) [129I]"ME, R"NIM 105 509 (72)/PR B61 13588 (00)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.