Re: RADSAFE digest 1086

[Gerald Feldman <gfeldman@uci.edu>]

At 11:03 AM 9/26/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>While I was working in the naval nuclear program, the reason given that
>uuCi is used versus pCi was that uCi and pCi sound alike over a sound
>powered phone.  Therefore the use of micro-micro Ci would be clearer in
>communications.
>
>Mike Baker ... baker@groves.neep.wisc.edu
>
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Following that line of reasoning, I would suppose that one would have to use
kilo-micro-curie to avoid confusing millicurie with microcurie.  I don't
know how poor these sound powered phones are, but the "pi" in pico is
pronounced  as the word  "pea", not "pie" {;-) .

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