Re: Abbreviations

[bobscottchp@juno.com (Robert A Scott)]

>Hi all - please help us settle a dispute... for those of us still 
>using
>conventional units, is millirem abbreviated as mrem (small r) or
>mRem (capital R)?
>
>Thanks for your help - Regards, Michelle
 
	Most folks use lower case, but back in the 60's we were taught
that the convention was to use upper case whenever a person's name was
involved.  Since Rem is an acronym for "Roentgen equivalent man", then
the abbreviation should be 'mRem'.  I rather suspect most of us have
forgotten the convention.

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