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Originally: a quantity of radon (radon 222, radium emanation) in radioactive equilibrium with one gramme of radium. Later extended to denote an…
(Written becquerel.) The SI unit of radioactivity, equal to one disintegration per second (superseding the curie, equal to 3·7 × 1010 becquerels)…