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Re: Static Magnetic Field G
Reply to: RE>>Static Magnetic Field Guidelines
Yes there are 10 gauss (or is it gausses) to the millitesla.
Gauss is old cgs and tesla is the stylish SI. Think of 10 000 square cm per
square m.
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Date: 5/10/96 11:07 AM
To: GORDON MILLER
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> > More recent guidance can be found in International Commission
> > on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. "Guidelines on Limits of
> > Exposure to Static Magnetic Fields," Health Phys. 66, 100-106
> > (1994). ICNIRP specifies:
> >
> > o A 2000 gauss time-weighted average exposure criterion,
>
> Is this 2000 Gauss or 2000 milli gauss?
It is 200 milliTesla = 2000 Gauss
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