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The half-life of 76As

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In the course of making high-accuracy measurements of arsenic, we found that the most recently published and compiled half-life of 76As did not agree with our data as well as the earlier accepted value. To redetermine this parameter, 76As sources were measured on four Ge gamma detector systems, and an exponential function was fitted to the decay data by two different nonlinear least-squares methods. We obtained T 1/2 = 1.09379 days with a standard uncertainty of 0.00045 days. This result is 1.5% higher than the most recent value, but is in agreement with the older, less precise, consensus value.

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  1. Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-8395, USA

    R. M. Lindstrom

  2. Interfaculty Reactor Institute, University of Technology, Delft Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB, Delft, The Netherlands

    M. Blaauw

  3. Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2104, USA

    R. F. Fleming

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Lindstrom, R.M., Blaauw, M. & Fleming, R.F. The half-life of 76As. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 257, 489–491 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025415926281

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