Units of Radioactivity
The standard unit in radioactivity is curie (c) which is defined as that amount of any radioactive material which gives disintegration’s per second (dps), i.e.,1c = Activity of 1g of
The millicurie (mc) and microcurie (mc) are equal to and
curies i.e.
and
dps respectively.
;
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But now a day, the unit curie is replaced by rutherford (rd) which is defined as the amount of a radioactive substance which undergoes i.e.,
. The millicurie and microcurie correspondingly rutherford units are millirutherford (mrd) and microrutherford (mrd) respectively.
However, in SI system the unit of radioactivity is Becquerel (Bq)
1 Bq = 1 disintegration per second = 1 dps = 1mrd, ,
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