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Beta particle - ✔✔Unstable nucleus releasing protons or neutrons
Gamma photon - ✔✔Nucleus in an excited State
X ray radiation - ✔✔Excited electrons moving out from their orbits
Neutron radiation - ✔✔Nucleus
What type of charge is generally found in beta radiation - ✔✔A negative
charge
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,Which type of radiation is pure energy without mass or charge -
✔✔Gamma or x-ray radiation
R (roentgen) - ✔✔The kinetic energy released in a unit of mass from
Gamma or x-rays
Rem (roentgen equivalent man) - ✔✔The biological effects of ionizing
radiation in human tissue
Rad - ✔✔The energy absorbed from ionizing radiation
Ci (curie) - ✔✔The rate at which a radioactive nuclide undergo
disintegration or transformation.
Gray(gy) - ✔✔The physical quantity of an absorbed dose (radiation
energy)
Sievert (sv) - ✔✔Used to express the biological effects of ionizing radiation
in human tissue
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, Becquerel (Bq) - ✔✔Expresses the rate of radioactive disintegration
Dose - ✔✔The total amount of radiation exposure expressed a unit of
measure
Dose rate - ✔✔The rate at which one is exposed to radiation expressed
with a unit of time
Dose reading - ✔✔A dose rate taken from a known distance to the source
of radiation
What is the standard international unit of measure used by the Army to
measure radiation absorbed dose - ✔✔Gray
What is the total amount of radiation one is exposed to called - ✔✔Dose or
total dose
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