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Barium Isotopes

Nominal Mass
Accurate Mass
% Natural Abundance
Chemical Form
Enrichment Available %

130 Ba

129.906282 (8)

0.106 (1)

carbonate

32 – 55+

132 Ba

131.905042 (9)

0.101 (1)

carbonate

 12 – 43+

134 Ba

133.904486 (7)

2.417 (18)

carbonate

83 – 88+

135 Ba

134.905665 (7)

6.592 (12)

carbonate

92 – 94+

136 Ba

135.904553 (7)

7.854 (24)

carbonate

93 – 95+

137 Ba

136.905812 (6)

11.23 (24)

carbonate

25 – 91+

138 Ba

137.905232 (6)

71.70 (42)

carbonate

99+

Barium Isotopes are used in a wide variety of fields and applications. Ba-130 is used in the production of Ba-131/Cs-131 which is used in brachytherapy (seeds). Ba-132 can be used for the production of Ba-133 which is used as a gamma reference source. Ba-134 has been used to perform experiments in the field of nuclear physics. Ba-136 has been used to study photon scattering phenomena. Barium Isotopes Ba-136 and Ba-138 have been used in activation cross section experiments. Ba-135 has been used to validate the use of spinor symmetry while Ba-137 has been used in experiments regarding the theory of relativistic coupled clusters. Finally, Ba-138 has been used in studying r- and s- processes in stars.