92-U-234
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92-uranium-234

Uranium-234 is used in dental fixtures like crowns and dentures to provide a natural color and brightness.
  • Atomic Mass: 234.0409456 +- 0.0000021 amu
  • Excess Mass: 38140.580 +- 1.976 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1778572.444 +- 2.002 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -1809.846 +- 8.321 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.
  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 0.0055%
  • Spin: 0+
  • Half life: 245500 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Th-230
    • Decay energy: 4.859 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 1.7E-9 %
  • Mode of decay: Mg
    • Branch ratio: 1E-11 %
    • Decay energy: -6.844 MeV
  • Mode of decay: Ne
    • Branch ratio: 9E-12 %
    • Decay energy: -6.844 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Pa-234
    Electron capture from Np-234
    Alpha from Pu-238
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)