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unit:MicroCi

http://qudt.org/vocab/unit/MicroCi
Types: qudt:Unit
PredicateObject
rdf:type qudt:Unit
dcterms:description Another commonly used measure of radioactivity, the microcurie: \(1 \micro Ci = 3.7 \times 10 disintegrations per second = 2.22 \times 10 disintegrations per minute\). A radiotherapy machine may have roughly 1000 Ci of a radioisotope such as caesium-137 or cobalt-60. This quantity of radioactivity can produce serious health effects with only a few minutes of close-range, un-shielded exposure. The typical human body contains roughly \(0.1\micro Ci\) of naturally occurring potassium-40.
dcterms:isReplacedBy unit:MicroCI
qudt:applicableSystem sou:CGS
qudt:conversionMultiplier 37000.0
qudt:conversionMultiplierSN 3.7E4
qudt:dbpediaMatch http://dbpedia.org/resource/Curie
qudt:deprecated “true”^^xsd:boolean
qudt:hasDimensionVector qkdv:A0E0L0I0M0H0T-1D0
qudt:hasQuantityKind quantitykind:Activity
qudt:iec61360Code “0112/2///62720#UAA062”
qudt:informativeReference
qudt:prefix prefix:Micro
qudt:scalingOf unit:CI
qudt:symbol “μCi”
qudt:ucumCode “uCi”^^qudt:UCUMcs
qudt:uneceCommonCode “M5”
qudt:wikidataMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106617198
rdfs:isDefinedBy http://qudt.org/3.1.11/vocab/unit
rdfs:label
  • “Microcurie”
  • “Microcurie”@en
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