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Re: rep

Greetings,

In a few dacedes there wont be a lot of guys who WILL know reb and rep.
For my generation, I would think it's some thing like... dB
(decibells)(REP!!??)for sound measurements.
I am glad that, I WILL know THEN what were these reps and rebs because
of this discussion.
Thanks folks.

Emil.


Gibbs, S Julian wrote:
>
> For you young whippersnappers who were not around when the
> rep was in use, rep is the acronym for "roentgen equivalent
> physical."  It was a (an) unit of dose, defined as
> deposition of 93 erg/g in soft tissue--approximately the
> dose deposited there from an exposure of 1 R.
>
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