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SV: Abbreviations
My opinion is that we all in the radiation physics world should use
SI-units.
NOT rad, rem, R.
JanP
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> Skickat: den 6 augusti 1998 11:57
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> Ämne: Re: Abbreviations
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> I agree with Lorna.
> I respect prof. Roentgen memory.
> But rad eqivalent makes more sense from the physics point of view
> and....if
> it does make any point... in Chernobyl we were refering to rad instead
> Roentgen in rem(BER). Is there any other opnions in other countries.
> Emil.
>
> kerremba@pilot.msu.edu
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> Lorna Bullerwell wrote:
> >
> > 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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