xenon-135
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Xenon-135 (135Xe) is an unstable isotope of xenon with a half-life of 9.14 hours, decaying to long-lived caesium-135.
Key facts
- Isotope.symbol
- Xe
- Isotope.mass_number
- 135
- Isotope.num_neutrons
- 81
- Isotope.num_protons
- 54
- Isotope.abundance
- 0 (synthetic)
- Isotope.image
- Xenon-135.svg
- Isotope.decay_product
- caesium-135
- Isotope.decay_symbol
- Cs
- Isotope.decay_mass
- 135
- Isotope.decay_mode1
- Beta decay
- Isotope.decay_energy1
- 1.165
- Isotope.spin
- 3/2+
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- isotope of xenon
- Subclass of
- xenon
- Mass
- 134.907
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- neutron number
- 81
- atomic number
- 54
- half-life
- 9.14
- spin quantum number
- 1.5
- parity quantum number
- 1
- mass excess
- -86413.151
- binding energy
- 1133794.26
- isomeric SMILES
- [135Xe]
- canonical SMILES
- [Xe]
- chemical formula
- Xe
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- <sup>135</sup>Xe effects on reactor restart
- Decay and capture products
- Spatial xenon oscillations
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Xenon-135 (135Xe) is an unstable isotope of xenon with a half-life of 9.14 hours, decaying to long-lived caesium-135.
135Xe is a fission product and it is the most powerful known neutron-absorbing nuclear poison (2 million barns; up to 3 million barns under reactor conditions), with a significant effect on nuclear reactor operation. The yield of xenon-135 from fission is about 6.6% (uranium) or 7.4% (plutonium), the great majority from iodine-135. (It is normal for fission products to be formed in such a chain of decays.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “xenon-135” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.