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From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett)
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Subject: Radiation units query
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 10:31:05 EDT
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Can someone post some definitions of how radiation is measured.
I've heard the terms:  rad, Roentgen, Curie, Rem (and maybe a
few others).  What do they mean and how do they relate to
concepts like half-life and lambda (as in Poisson distribution)?

Thanks in advance,

Mark Garrett