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Sr-85m — Strontium-85m

The half-life of Sr-85m is 1.1272 h. Main decay mode: isomeric transition to Sr-85 (86.6%).

Identification

Element
Strontium (Sr)
Atomic number Z
38
Mass number A
85
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
1.1272 h
Specific activity
1.21e+18 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
A1 / A2 for transport (SSR-6, НП-053-16)
5 TBq / 5 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.1 TBq

Decay modes

  • isomeric transition → Sr-85 — 86.6 %
  • β⁺ decay / electron capture → Rb-85 — 13.4 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
231.8684.43
151.19412.86
13.395 · X-ray line4.631
13.336 · X-ray line2.407
238.780.2767
129.820.1508
731.7970.01467
450.790.01075
510.999 · annihilation 511 keV0.0054
580.640.0008744

Lines of the bare nuclide (ENDF/B-VIII.0), without daughter ingrowth.

Related calculators

DecayActivity ↔ massSource categoryDose rateA1/A2 and package type

Other isotopes of this element

Sr-89Sr-90
Reference data vs computed valuesHalf-life, gamma lines and D-value are reference data (ENDF/B-VIII.0, НП-067-24).Gamma constant Γ is H*(10) at 1 m computed from ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) including short-lived progeny in equilibrium (e.g. Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity uses molar mass M ≈ mass number A.K-series X-ray energies are from NIST SRD 128 (Deslattes et al., 2003): in ENDF/B-VIII.0 they are given to 1 % and shifted by up to 0.7 keV for heavy elements. L-series lines and all yields are ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Strontium-85m (Sr-85m) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Sr-85m in one place: half-life, decay modes, main gamma lines, alpha and beta particle energies, gamma constant, specific activity and the D-value for source categorization. Decay and emission data are from ENDF/B-VIII.0; the D-value follows NP-067-24; the gamma constant is the ambient dose equivalent H*(10) at 1 m, computed from ICRP-107 spectra.

How to use the data

Half-life and specific activity let you recalculate the activity of a Sr-85m source to the delivery or disposal date — use the decay calculator. Gamma lines with yields identify the nuclide from a spectrum and pick the line for gamma spectrometry; the gamma constant Γ gives the dose rate at a distance, while the D-value and A1/A2 set the source category and the package type for transport.