Units of Radioactivity
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Radioactivity has the dimension length squared mass per time. The SI composite unit of radioactivity is the kilogram meter squared per second.
Maple knows the units of radioactivity listed in the following table.
Name
Symbols
Context
Alternate Spellings
Prefixes
becquerel
Bq
SI *
becquerels
SI
curie
Ci
radiation *
curies
rutherford
Rd
rutherfords
An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively. Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, becquerel[SI] or Ci[radiation]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, becquerel or Ci.
The units of radioactivity are defined as follows.
A becquerel is defined as a radionuclide decay per second.
A curie is defined as 3.7×1010 radionuclide decays per second.
A rutherford is defined as 1.×106 radionuclide decays per second.
convert⁡becquerel,dimensions,base=true
1time
convert⁡1,units,Ci,Bq
37000000000
convert⁡1,units,Rd,Bq
1000000
See Also
convert/dimensions
convert/units
Units
Units/Index
Units/length
Units/mass
Units/time
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