90-Th-230
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90-thorium-230

Thorium-230 provides coloring and fluorescence in colored glazes and glassware.
  • Atomic Mass: 230.0331266 +- 0.0000022 amu
  • Excess Mass: 30857.201 +- 2.017 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1755135.239 +- 2.042 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -1309.668 +- 2.837 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: 75380 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Ra-226
    • Decay energy: 4.770 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: <=5.E-11 %
    • Decay energy: 1 0.000 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Ac-230
    Electron capture from Pa-230
    Alpha from U-234
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)