Re: Abbreviations

[Lorna Bullerwell <ljb1@cornell.edu>]

I've seen a couple of posts saying that rem stands for Roentgen equivalent
man.  I thought rem stood for rad equivalent man, thus not named after a
person.  If it is Roentgen eqivalent man, wouldn't it only be valid for for
x and gammas effects and for air-equivalent people?


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