rem

Examples

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• The doctor reported that the patient had received a dose of 50 rem after the radiation treatment.

• A rem is a unit of ionizing radiation.

  The Humanity Bureau (2017)

• In 30,000 years, you get 6,000 rems worth of cosmic rays.

  Blog text (26)

• The Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims received about 130 rems, although some people got much more.

  Academic text (1992)

• The level of radiation in the hot spots around the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor was 0.1 rem (zero point one).

  Blog text (13)

• Let's be cautious and assume that, if the Hiroshima victims had received 500 rem only in their lungs, it would have obliterated their air sacs.

  Academic text (1992)

• In other words, if a dose of 130 rem increases one's risk of cancer death by 5 percent, then a dose of 13 rem should increase it by 0.5 percent and a dose of 1.3 rem should increase it by 0.05 percent.

  Academic text (1992)

• According to a statistical scale developed by the National Academy of Sciences, 45 rem should have raised cancer deaths of residents near Chernobyl from the naturally occurring average of 20% to about 21.8%—or roughly 500 excess fatalities.

  Academic text (2012)

• Workers at the nuclear plant are monitored closely to ensure they do not exceed the safe limit of 5 rem per year.

• In occupational settings, a maximum exposure of 100 rem is typically considered the limit for a safe working lifetime.

Compounds

R

REM sleep

• Specialized

13 4.1

A stage of sleep with fast eye movement, clear dreams, and high brain activity

J

judgment in rem

• Formal

9.9

A court decision that says who owns a particular thing

Surface Forms

Etymology