Simple Description

A unit of radioactivity equal to 1 count per second

Further Detail

Bequerels (Bq) are named after Henri Becquerel. 1Bq is equal to 1 decay per second. Typical radioactive sources may have a count rate of 200kBq (200,000 decays per second)

Related Words:

• Radioactive decay
• kilo

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