This page documents an OPTIMADE Unit Definition. See https://schemas.optimade.org/ for more information.
ID: https://schemas.optimade.org/defs/v1.2/units/si/1983/temporary/radiationunit
Definition name: radiationunit
Unit name: radiation unit
Latin symbol: radiationunit
Display symbol: rad
Description: A unit used to express the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation defined as 10⁻² J/kg using the 1983 SI units.
This unit definition uses "radiationunit" as the symbol for this unit despite "rad" being in common use to distinguish it from the radian, which is an SI unit with rad as its symbol.
The radiation unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as "1 rad = 10⁻² J/kg" with the footnote: "The rad is a special unit employed to express absorbed dose of ionizing radiation. When there is risk of confusion with the symbol for radian, rd may be used as the symbol for rad."
The roentgen unit was implicitly redefined via the redefinition of the metre at the 17th CGPM meeting (1983), resolution 1.
Resources:
JSON definition:
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"description": "A unit used to express the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation defined as 10\u207b\u00b2 J/kg using the 1983 SI units.\n\nThis unit definition uses \"radiationunit\" as the symbol for this unit despite \"rad\" being in common use to distinguish it from the radian, which is an SI unit with rad as its symbol.\n\nThe radiation unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as \"1 rad = 10\u207b\u00b2 J/kg\" with the footnote: \"The rad is a special unit employed to express absorbed dose of ionizing radiation. When there is risk of confusion with the symbol for radian, rd may be used as the symbol for rad.\"\n\n- The International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) categorizes the unit as \"Units in use temporarily with the International System.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 3rd ed. (1977) changes the definition to use the unit gray: \"1 rad = cGy = 10\u207b\u00b2 Gy.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 7th ed. (1998) changes the categorization to \"Examples of other non-SI units\" and adds the additional footnote: \"Note that this non-SI unit is exactly equivalent to an SI unit with an appropriate submultiple prefix.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed. (2006) omits the unit.\n\nThe roentgen unit was implicitly redefined via the redefinition of the metre at the 17th CGPM meeting (1983), resolution 1.",
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