I would expect 1 PR (one petaroentgen) of radiation to vaporize any
thing that received that amount of irradiation. Never mind how I
learned this, but 50 kR of radiation turns the visceral parts of
animals into a boiling mush.
Jim
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
> Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10029
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> >Again (what are C/kg Co. K.K. PR ???)
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> >C/kg=Coulomb per kilogram (radiation unit)
> >Co= Coulomb (wrong symbol, should be C)
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> >The last two, I don't have a clue. Maybe K.K. is old metric and refers to
> >kilo-kilo instead of mega.
....
>
> Knowing nothing about the subject, I would understand PR to mean petar�ntgen:
> 1 PR = 2.58 X 10^11 C/kg
>
> I have no idea if such a unit has ever been used�
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