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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A unit expressing the rate of decay of radioactive material, equal to one million disintegrations per second.

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  1. n. An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.

Etymologies

  1. After Ernest Rutherford. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Ernest Rutherford. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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