28-Ni-63
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28-nickel-63

Nickel-63 is used to detect explosives...and as voltage regulators and current surge protectors in electronic devices.
  • Atomic Mass: 62.9296729 +- 0.0000015 amu
  • Excess Mass: -65509.217 +- 1.435 keV
  • Binding Energy: 552096.659 +- 1.437 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- 66.945 +- 0.005 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: 1/2-
  • Half life: 100.1 years
  • Mode of decay: Beta to Cu-63
    • Decay energy: 0.067 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Co-63
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
871.72 ms5/2- +0.752(3) [19F 197]TDPADPL 32B 41 (70)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.