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- noun metrology Symbol for the
kilobecquerel , anSI unit ofradioactivity equal to 103becquerels .
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Examples
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Soil beyond the 30-kilometer evacuation zone shows cesium-137 levels at 2,200 kBq per square meter -- 67 percent greater than that requiring evacuation near Chernobyl.
Robert Alvarez: Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day Robert Alvarez 2011
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Bq decabecquerel daBq decibecquerel dBq hectobecquerel hBq centibecquerel cBq kilobecquerel kBq millibecquerel mBq megabecquerel
Becquerel 2008
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A map of Chernobyl in the UN report shows regions shaded according to rate, up to 3,700 kBq per sq m - areas with less than 37 kBq per sq m are not shaded at all.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The highest rate reported, at 1900 on 22 March, for any Japanese prefecture was 12 kBq per sq m for the radioactive isotope of caesium, caesium-137.
BBC News - Home 2011
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In this open-label, multicenter, single-arm, phase IIa study, 23 patients were scheduled to receive four intravenous injections of radium-223 chloride 50 kBq/kg every four weeks.
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Zr-DFO-trastuzumab (50 µL of a stock solution of < 0.37 kBq, [
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Zr-DFO-trastuzumab (50 µL of a stock solution of < 0.37 kBq, [
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jason P. Holland et al. 2010
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