Definition of radioactivity unit Radioactivity unit
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What does radioactivity unit mean?
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| radioactivity unit - a measure of radioactivity | ||
| electromagnetic unit, emu any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism | ||
| millicurie a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | ||
| ci, curie French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) | ||
| gy, gray a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | ||
| roentgen, r German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923) | ||
| rutherford British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937) | ||
| rem (Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays | ||
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