Items tagged “radioactivity”
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Becquerel (SI unit)
The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI unit of radioactivity and is defined as one nuclear disintegration per second 1; it officially replaced the curie (Ci), the unit in the superseded cgs system, in 1975.
On Radiopaedia.org we primarily express all radioactive doses in becquerels. However as th...
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Gamma decay
Gamma decay refers to the release of a gamma (γ) ray photon, a form of high energy electromagnetic radiation, due to radioactive decay of a nucleus. Typically, the energy spectra is in the ~100 keV to ~10 MeV range 1.
Gamma decay
Gamma decay is a mode of radioactive decay. It differs from alph...