90-Th-229
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90-thorium-229

Thorium-229 helps fluorescent lights to last longer.
  • Atomic Mass: 229.0317553 +- 0.0000031 amu
  • Excess Mass: 29579.904 +- 2.925 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1748341.213 +- 2.941 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -310.431 +- 8.827 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: 5/2+
  • Half life: 7340 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Ra-225
    • Decay energy: 5.168 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Ac-229
    Electron capture from Pa-229
    Alpha from U-233
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
07340 y5/2+ +0.46(4) [239Pu]OJPPa 35 483 (74)
+4.3(9) OJPPa 35 483 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.