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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A unit of radiation exposure equal to the quantity of ionizing radiation that will produce one electrostatic unit of electricity in one cubic centimeter of dry air at 0°C and standard atmospheric pressure.

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  1. After Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby "'They're a horde of stupid, dirty layabouts,' said Pettigrew. 'I know them, I grew up among them. You middle-class liberals like to pet them, but I wouldn't even let them breed. What we need is an X-ray device under the turnstiles at the football stadiums. Each man going through gets a blast of 900 roentgens right on the testicles. It would be perfectly painless. They wouldn't know what had happened till they got a wee printed card along with their entrance ticket. 'Dear Sir,' it would say. 'You may now ride your wife in perfect safety.''" - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray. Dec 12, 2007

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