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iron-56
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Also known as Fe-56, 56Fe

thumb|290px|Nuclear binding energy per nucleon of common isotopes; iron-56 labelled at the curve's crest. The rarer isotopes nickel-62 and iron-58, which both have higher binding energies, are not shown.

Key facts

Isotope.mass_number
56
Isotope.symbol
Fe
Isotope.num_neutrons
30
Isotope.num_protons
26
Isotope.abundance
91.754%
Isotope.spin
0+

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
stable isotope
Subclass of
iron
Mass
55.934935617
Image
Iron-56.svg
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atomic number
26
neutron number
30
natural abundance
0.91754
spin quantum number
0.0
parity quantum number
1
mass excess
-60607.082
binding energy
492259.824
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Relationship to nickel-62
  • See also
  • References

thumb|290px|Nuclear binding energy per nucleon of common isotopes; iron-56 labelled at the curve's crest. The rarer isotopes nickel-62 and iron-58, which both have higher binding energies, are not shown.

Iron-56 (56Fe) is one of four stable isotopes of iron, and the most common, comprising about 91.754% of the iron on Earth.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “iron-56” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.