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Isotopes ofcalifornium (98Cf)
Main isotopes[1][2]Decay
abun­dancehalf-life(t1/2)modepro­duct
248Cfsynth333.5 dα100%244Cm
SF<0.01%
249Cfsynth351 yα100%245Cm
SF≪0.01%
250Cfsynth13.08 yα99.9%246Cm
SF0.08%
251Cfsynth898 yα247Cm
252Cfsynth2.645 yα96.9%248Cm
SF3.09%
253Cfsynth17.81 dβ99.7%253Es
α0.31%249Cm
254Cfsynth60.5 dSF99.7%
α0.31%250Cm

Californium (98Cf) is anartificial element, and thus astandard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has nostable isotopes. The firstisotope to be synthesized was245Cf in 1950. There are 20 knownradioisotopes ranging from237Cf to256Cf and onenuclear isomer,249mCf. The longest-lived isotope is251Cf with ahalf-life of 898 years.

List of isotopes

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Cf-249
Cf-251
Nuclide
[n 1]
ZNIsotopic mass(Da)[3]
[n 2][n 3]
Half-life[4]
Decay
mode
[4]
[n 4]
Daughter
isotope

Spin and
parity[4]
[n 5][n 6]
Excitation energy
237Cf98139237.06220(10)0.8(2) sα (70%)233Cm5/2+#
SF (30%)(various)
β+ (rare)237Bk
238Cf98140238.06149(32)#21.1(13) msSF[n 7](various)0+
α (<5%)234Cm
239Cf[5]98141239.06248(13)#28(2) sα (65%)235Cm(5/2+)
β+ (35%)239Bk
240Cf98142240.062253(19)40.3(9) sα (98.5%)236Cm0+
SF (1.5%)(various)
β+?240Bk
241Cf[5]98143241.06369(18)#2.35(18) minβ+ (85%)241Bk(7/2−)
α (15%)237Cm
242Cf98144242.063755(14)3.49(15) minα (61%)238Cm0+
β+ (39%)242Bk
SF (<0.014%)(various)
243Cf98145243.06548(19)#10.8(3) minβ+ (86%)243Bk(1/2+)
α (14%)239Cm
244Cf98146244.0659994(28)19.5(5) minα (75%)240Cm0+
EC (25%)244Bk
245Cf98147245.0680468(26)45.0(15) minβ+ (64.7%)245Bk1/2+
α (35.3%)241Cm
245mCf57(4) keV>100# nsIT245Cf(7/2+)
246Cf98148246.0688037(16)35.7(5) hα242Cm0+
SF (2.4×10−4%)(various)
EC?246Bk
247Cf98149247.070971(15)3.11(3) hEC (99.965%)247Bk(7/2+)
α (.035%)243Cm
248Cf98150248.0721829(55)333.5(28) dα (99.997%)244Cm0+
SF (.0029%)(various)
249Cf98151249.0748504(13)351(2) yα245Cm9/2−
SF (5×10−7%)(various)
249mCf144.98(5) keV45(5) μsIT249Cf5/2+
250Cf98152250.0764045(17)13.08(9) yα (99.923%)246Cm0+
SF (.077%)(various)
251Cf[n 8]98153251.0795872(42)898(44) yα247Cm1/2+
251mCf370.47(3) keV1.3(1) μsIT251Cf11/2−
252Cf[n 9]98154252.0816265(25)2.645(8) yα (96.8972%)248Cm0+
SF (3.1028%)[n 10](various)
253Cf98155253.0851337(46)17.81(8) dβ (99.69%)253Es(7/2+)
α (.31%)249Cm
254Cf98156254.087324(12)60.5(2) dSF (99.69%)(various)0+
α (.31%)250Cm
ββ?254Fm
255Cf98157255.09105(22)#85(18) minβ255Es(7/2+)
SF?(various)
α?251Cm
256Cf98158256.09344(34)#12.3(12) minSF(various)0+
α?252Cm
ββ?256Fm
This table header & footer:
  1. ^mCf – Excitednuclear isomer.
  2. ^( ) – Uncertainty (1σ) is given in concise form in parentheses after the corresponding last digits.
  3. ^# – Atomic mass marked #: value and uncertainty derived not from purely experimental data, but at least partly from trends from the Mass Surface (TMS).
  4. ^Modes of decay:
    EC:Electron capture


    SF:Spontaneous fission
  5. ^( ) spin value – Indicates spin with weak assignment arguments.
  6. ^# – Values marked # are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from trends of neighboring nuclides (TNN).
  7. ^Lightest nuclide known to undergospontaneous fission as its main decay mode
  8. ^Highneutron cross-section, tends to absorb neutrons
  9. ^Most common isotope
  10. ^High neutron emitter, average 3.7neutrons perfission

Actinides vs fission products

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Actinides and fission products by half-life
Actinides[6] bydecay chainHalf-life
range (a)
Fission products of235U byyield[7]
4n4n + 14n + 24n + 34.5–7%0.04–1.25%<0.001%
228Ra4–6 a155Euþ
248Bk[8]> 9 a
244Cmƒ241Puƒ250Cf227Ac10–29 a90Sr85Kr113mCdþ
232Uƒ238Puƒ243Cmƒ29–97 a137Cs151Smþ121mSn
249Cfƒ242mAmƒ141–351 a

No fission products have ahalf-life
in the range of 100 a–210 ka ...

241Amƒ251Cfƒ[9]430–900 a
226Ra247Bk1.3–1.6 ka
240Pu229Th246Cmƒ243Amƒ4.7–7.4 ka
245Cmƒ250Cm8.3–8.5 ka
239Puƒ24.1 ka
230Th231Pa32–76 ka
236Npƒ233Uƒ234U150–250 ka99Tc126Sn
248Cm242Pu327–375 ka79Se
1.33 Ma135Cs
237Npƒ1.61–6.5 Ma93Zr107Pd
236U247Cmƒ15–24 Ma129I
244Pu80 Ma

... nor beyond 15.7 Ma[10]

232Th238U235Uƒ№0.7–14.1 Ga

Californium-252

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Californium-252 production diagram

Californium-252 (Cf-252,252Cf) undergoes spontaneous fission with abranching ratio of 3.09% and is used in smallneutron sources. Fission neutrons have an energy range of 0 to 13 MeV with a mean value of 2.3 MeV and a most probable value of 1 MeV.[11]

Thisisotope produces high neutron emissions and has a number of uses in industries such as nuclear energy, medicine, andpetrochemical exploration.

Nuclear reactors

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Californium-252 neutron sources are most notably used in the start-up ofnuclear reactors. Once a reactor is filled withnuclear fuel, the stable neutron emission from said source starts the chain reaction.

Military and defense

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The portable isotopic neutron spectroscopy (PINS) used byUnited States Armed Forces, theNational Guard,Homeland Security, andCustoms and Border Protection, uses252Cf sources to detect hazardous contents insideartillery projectiles,mortar projectiles,rockets,bombs,land mines, andimprovised explosive devices (IED).[12][13]

Oil and petroleum

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In theoil industry,252Cf is used to find layers ofpetroleum and water in awell. Instrumentation is lowered into the well, which bombards the formation with high energy neutrons to determineporosity,permeability, andhydrocarbon presence along the length of theborehole.[14]

Medicine

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Californium-252 has also been used in the treatment of serious forms ofcancer. For certain types of brain and cervical cancer,252Cf can be used as a more cost-effective substitute forradium.[15]

References

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  1. ^CRC 2006, p. 11.196.
  2. ^Sonzogni, Alejandro A. (Database Manager), ed. (2008)."Chart of Nuclides". National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved1 March 2010.
  3. ^Wang, Meng; Huang, W.J.; Kondev, F.G.; Audi, G.; Naimi, S. (2021). "The AME 2020 atomic mass evaluation (II). Tables, graphs and references*".Chinese Physics C.45 (3): 030003.doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddaf.
  4. ^abcKondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S.; Audi, G. (2021)."The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear properties"(PDF).Chinese Physics C.45 (3): 030001.doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddae.
  5. ^abKhuyagbaatar, J.; Heßberger, F. P.; Hofmann, S.; Ackermann, D.; Burkhard, H. G.; Heinz, S.; Kindler, B.; Kojouharov, I.; Lommel, B.; Mann, R.; Maurer, J.; Nishio, K. (12 October 2020)."α decay of Fm 243 143 and Fm 245 145 , and of their daughter nuclei".Physical Review C.102 (4): 044312.doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.102.044312.ISSN 2469-9985.S2CID 241259726. Retrieved24 June 2023.
  6. ^Plus radium (element 88). While actually a sub-actinide, it immediately precedes actinium (89) and follows a three-element gap of instability afterpolonium (84) where no nuclides have half-lives of at least four years (the longest-lived nuclide in the gap isradon-222 with a half life of less than fourdays). Radium's longest lived isotope, at 1,600 years, thus merits the element's inclusion here.
  7. ^Specifically fromthermal neutron fission of uranium-235, e.g. in a typicalnuclear reactor.
  8. ^Milsted, J.; Friedman, A. M.; Stevens, C. M. (1965). "The alpha half-life of berkelium-247; a new long-lived isomer of berkelium-248".Nuclear Physics.71 (2): 299.Bibcode:1965NucPh..71..299M.doi:10.1016/0029-5582(65)90719-4.
    "The isotopic analyses disclosed a species of mass 248 in constant abundance in three samples analysed over a period of about 10 months. This was ascribed to an isomer of Bk248 with a half-life greater than 9 [years]. No growth of Cf248 was detected, and a lower limit for the β half-life can be set at about 104 [years]. No alpha activity attributable to the new isomer has been detected; the alpha half-life is probably greater than 300 [years]."
  9. ^This is the heaviest nuclide with a half-life of at least four years before the "sea of instability".
  10. ^Excluding those "classically stable" nuclides with half-lives significantly in excess of232Th; e.g., while113mCd has a half-life of only fourteen years, that of113Cd is eightquadrillion years.
  11. ^Dicello, J. F.; Gross, W.; Kraljevic, U. (1972). "Radiation Quality of Californium-252".Physics in Medicine and Biology.17 (3):345–355.Bibcode:1972PMB....17..345D.doi:10.1088/0031-9155/17/3/301.PMID 5070445.S2CID 250786668.
  12. ^"Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy (PINS) for the Military".Frontier Technology Corp. Archived fromthe original on 2018-06-16. Retrieved2016-02-24.
  13. ^Martin, R. C.; Knauer, J. B.; Balo, P. A. (2000-11-01)."Production, distribution and applications of californium-252 neutron sources".Applied Radiation and Isotopes.53 (4–5):785–792.doi:10.1016/s0969-8043(00)00214-1.ISSN 0969-8043.PMID 11003521.
  14. ^"Californium-252 & Antimony-Beryllium Sources".Frontier Technology Corp. Retrieved2016-02-24.
  15. ^Maruyama, Y.; van Nagell, J. R.; Yoneda, J.; Donaldson, E.; Hanson, M.; Martin, A.; Wilson, L. C.; Coffey, C. W.; Feola, J. (1984-10-01). "Five-year cure of cervical cancer treated using californium-252 neutron brachytherapy".American Journal of Clinical Oncology.7 (5):487–493.doi:10.1097/00000421-198410000-00018.ISSN 0277-3732.PMID 6391143.S2CID 12553815.

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alkali metals
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earth metals
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373839404142434445464748495051525354
55561 asterisk71727374757677787980818283848586
87881 asterisk103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118
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