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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Radiation Measurement (Curies)
Message-ID: <288@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 16:35:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 16:35:42 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 19:32:01 EDT
Reply-To: bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
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>From: lll-crg!seismo!harvard!bu-cs!bzs (Barry Shein)

>Thanks Andy, we were just hunting around for this stuff here
>(but you missed "curies", it comes up because the media described
>Chernobyl as containing "15,000 Curies" of ...stuff?...

Curie:
	A unit of radioactivity; it is the activity of a quantity of
any radioactive species in which 3.700e10 nuclear disintegrations
occur per second. The _gamma curie_ is sometimes defined
correspondingly as the activity of material in which this number of
gamma-ray photons are emitted per second.
-- 
Amu, ne armu!

Andy Beals
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