Following a fast chemical separation of Ru isotopes from a fission-pro
duct mixture, Rh-105m was periodically extracted from its precursor (4
.44-h Ru-105) for measurements of its half-life. The new value for the
T-1/2 of Rh-105m of (43.0 +/- 0.3) s resolves the long-standing confl
ict in the literature between the two earlier measured values of 45 an
d 30 s. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.