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Old Sep 25, 2007, 8:38 pm
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altaskier
 
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Originally Posted by movingalong
(and stop using rems... its called Sieverts, heheh today's flamer post)
Rads/REMs were the units I used to use, before switching to the SI standard of Gray/Sievert. For those who really wanted to know, 100 Rad=1 Gray, 100 REM=1 Sievert, and Sievert=Gray*RBE (and also REM=Rad*RBE) where RBE is the relative biological effectiveness (about 1 for X rays).
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