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Isotopes of fermium

Fermium (100Fm) is a synthetic element, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no stable isotopes. The first isotope to be discovered (in fallout from nuclear testing) was 255Fm in 1952. 250Fm was independently synthesized shortly after the discovery of 255Fm. There are 20 known radioisotopes ranging in atomic mass from 241Fm to 260Fm (260Fm is unconfirmed), and 4 nuclear isomers, 247mFm, 250mFm, 251mFm, and 253mFm. The longest-lived isotope is 257Fm with a half-life of 100.5 days, and the longest-lived isomer is 247mFm with a half-life of 5.1 seconds.

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List of isotopes

Nuclide¹	Z	N	Isotopic mass (Da)² ³ ⁴	Half-life ⁵	Decaymode ⁶ ⁷	Daughterisotope	Spin andparity ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰
Nuclide¹	Excitation energy			Half-life ⁵	Decaymode ⁶ ⁷	Daughterisotope	Spin andparity ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰
241Fm	100	141	241.07431(32)#	730(60) μs	SF?	(various)	5/2+#
					α (<14%)	237Cf
					β+ (<12%)	241Es
242Fm	100	142	242.07343(43)#	0.8(2) ms	SF	(various)	0+
242Fm	100	142	242.07343(43)#	0.8(2) ms	α?	238Cf	0+
243Fm¹¹	100	143	243.07441(14)#	231(9) ms	α (91%)	239Cf	(7/2−)
					SF (9%)	(various)
					β+?	243Es
244Fm	100	144	244.07404(22)#	3.12(8) ms	SF (>97%)	(various)	0+
					β+ (<2%)	244Es
					α (<1%)	240Cf
245Fm¹²	100	145	245.07535(21)#	4.2(13) s	α (88.5%)	241Cf	(1/2+)
					β+ (11.5%)	245Es
					SF (<0.3%)¹³	(various)
246Fm	100	146	246.075350(17)	1.54(4) s	α (93.2%)	242Cf	0+
					SF (6.8%)	(various)
					EC (<1.3%)	246Es
247Fm	100	147	247.07694(19)#	31(1) s	α (~64%)	243Cf	(7/2+)
247Fm	100	147	247.07694(19)#	31(1) s	β+? (~36%)	247Es	(7/2+)
247mFm	49(8) keV			5.1(2) s	α (88%)	243Cf	(1/2+)
					IT?	247Fm
					β+?	247Es
248Fm	100	148	248.0771855(91)	34.5(12) s	α (99.9%)	244Cf	0+
					SF (0.1%)	(various)
					β+?	248Es
248mFm	1200(100)# keV			10.1(6) ms	IT?	248Fm	6+#
					α?	244Cf
					β+?	248Es
249Fm	100	149	249.0789260(67)	1.6(1) min	β+? (67%)	249Es	7/2+
249Fm	100	149	249.0789260(67)	1.6(1) min	α (33%)	245Cf	7/2+
250Fm	100	150	250.0795198(85)	31.0(11) min	α (99.99%)	246Cf	0+
					SF (6.9×10−3%)	(various)
					EC?	250Es
250mFm	1199.2(10) keV			1.92(5) s	IT	250Fm	(8−)
					α?	246Cf
					β+?	250Es
					SF?	(various)
251Fm	100	151	251.081545(15)	5.30(8) h	β+ (98.20%)	251Es	9/2−
251Fm	100	151	251.081545(15)	5.30(8) h	α (1.80%)	247Cf	9/2−
251mFm	200.0(1) keV			21.8(8) μs	IT	251Fm	5/2+
252Fm	100	152	252.0824660(56)	25.39(4) h	α (99.99%)¹⁴	248Cf	0+
252Fm	100	152	252.0824660(56)	25.39(4) h	SF (.0023%)	(various)	0+
253Fm	100	153	253.0851809(16)	3.00(12) d	EC (88%)	253Es	1/2+
253Fm	100	153	253.0851809(16)	3.00(12) d	α (12%)	249Cf	1/2+
253mFm	351(6) keV			0.56(6) μs	IT	253Fm	11/2-#
254Fm	100	154	254.0868524(20)	3.240(2) h	α (99.94%)	250Cf	0+
254Fm	100	154	254.0868524(20)	3.240(2) h	SF (0.0592%)	(various)	0+
255Fm	100	155	255.0899635(42)	20.07(7) h	α	251Cf	7/2+
255Fm	100	155	255.0899635(42)	20.07(7) h	SF (2.4×10−5%)	(various)	7/2+
256Fm	100	156	256.0917717(32)	157.1(13) min	SF (91.9%)	(various)	0+
256Fm	100	156	256.0917717(32)	157.1(13) min	α (8.1%)	252Cf	0+
257Fm¹⁵	100	157	257.0951054(47)	100.5(2) d	α (99.79%)	253Cf	9/2+
257Fm¹⁵	100	157	257.0951054(47)	100.5(2) d	SF (.210%)	(various)	9/2+
258Fm	100	158	258.09708(22)#	370(14) μs	SF	(various)	0+
258Fm	100	158	258.09708(22)#	370(14) μs	α?	254Cf	0+
259Fm	100	159	259.10060(30)#	1.5(2) s	SF	(various)	3/2+#
260Fm¹⁶ ¹⁷	100	160	260.10281(47)#	1# min	SF	(various)	0+
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Chronology of isotope discovery

Isotope	Discovered	Reaction
241Fm	2008	204Pb(40Ar,3n)
242Fm	1975	204Pb(40Ar,2n), 206Pb(40Ar,4n)
243Fm	1981	206Pb(40Ar,3n)
244Fm	1967	233U(16O,5n)
245Fm	1967	233U(16O,4n)
246Fm	1966	235U(16O,5n)
247Fm	1967	239Pu(12C,4n)
248Fm	1958	240Pu(12C,4n)
249Fm	1960	238U(16O,5n)
250Fm	1954	238U(16O,4n)
251Fm	1957	249Cf(α,2n)
252Fm	1956	249Cf(α,n)
253Fm	1957	252Cf(α,3n)
254Fm	1954	Neutron capture
255Fm	1954	Neutron capture
256Fm	1955	Neutron capture
257Fm	1964	Neutron capture
258Fm	1971	257Fm(d,p)
259Fm	1980	257Fm(t,p)
260Fm?	1992?	254Es+18O, 22Ne — transfer (EC of 260Md)

260Fm was not confirmed in 1997.

Isotope masses from:
- M. Wang; G. Audi; A. H. Wapstra; F. G. Kondev; M. MacCormick; X. Xu; et al. (2012). "The AME2012 atomic mass evaluation (II). Tables, graphs and references" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 36 (12): 1603–2014. Bibcode:2012ChPhC..36....3M. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/36/12/003. S2CID 250839471.
- Audi, Georges; Bersillon, Olivier; Blachot, Jean; Wapstra, Aaldert Hendrik (2003), "The NUBASE evaluation of nuclear and decay properties", Nuclear Physics A, 729: 3–128, Bibcode:2003NuPhA.729....3A, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2003.11.001
Half-life, spin, and isomer data selected from the following sources.
- Audi, G.; Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Pfeiffer, B.; Sun, X.; Blachot, J.; MacCormick, M. (2012). "The NUBASE2012 evaluation of nuclear properties" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 36 (12): 1157–1286. Bibcode:2012ChPhC..36....1A. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/36/12/001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
- Audi, Georges; Bersillon, Olivier; Blachot, Jean; Wapstra, Aaldert Hendrik (2003), "The NUBASE evaluation of nuclear and decay properties", Nuclear Physics A, 729: 3–128, Bibcode:2003NuPhA.729....3A, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2003.11.001
- National Nuclear Data Center. "NuDat 2.x database". Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- Holden, Norman E. (2004). "11. Table of the Isotopes". In Lide, David R. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (85th ed.). Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0485-9.
- M. Thoennessen (2012). "Discovery of Isotopes of Elements with Z≥100". Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables. 99 (3): 312–344. arXiv:1203.2105. Bibcode:2013ADNDT..99..312T. doi:10.1016/j.adt.2012.03.003. S2CID 94982856.

References

mFm – Excited nuclear isomer. /wiki/Nuclear_isomer ↩
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. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩
( ) – Uncertainty (1σ) is given in concise form in parentheses after the corresponding last digits. ↩
# – Atomic mass marked #: value and uncertainty derived not from purely experimental data, but at least partly from trends from the Mass Surface (TMS). ↩
Kondev, 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. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf ↩
Kondev, 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. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf ↩
Modes of decay: EC:Electron captureIT:Isomeric transitionSF:Spontaneous fission /wiki/Electron_capture ↩
Kondev, 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. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf ↩
( ) spin value – Indicates spin with weak assignment arguments. ↩
# – Values marked # are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from trends of neighboring nuclides (TNN). ↩
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Khuyagbaatar, 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. Retrieved 24 June 2023. https://journals.aps.org/prc/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.044312 ↩
Theoretically capable of β+β+ decay to 252Cf ↩
Heaviest nuclide produced via neutron capture /wiki/Neutron_capture ↩
Discovery of this isotope is unconfirmed ↩
Not directly synthesized, occurs as decay product of 260Md ↩