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Examples
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Geiger counters indicated that he was flush with roentgens.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Spray-painted radiation readings were scrawled along the walls with the dates … In May of 1986, the background radiation was .5 roentgens per hour.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Safety protocols and information from radiation detectors had been disregarded, though the true levels were twenty thousand roentgens per hour, well exceeding the lethal dose of five hundred roentgens.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Geiger counters indicated that he was flush with roentgens.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Safety protocols and information from radiation detectors had been disregarded, though the true levels were twenty thousand roentgens per hour, well exceeding the lethal dose of five hundred roentgens.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Spray-painted radiation readings were scrawled along the walls with the dates … In May of 1986, the background radiation was .5 roentgens per hour.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Her dosimeter crept near 1.0 roentgens … suggesting that whatever the Chimera had accomplished here had breached containment.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Her dosimeter crept near 1.0 roentgens … suggesting that whatever the Chimera had accomplished here had breached containment.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Geiger counters register 10 roentgens an hour -- five per year is considered safe -- rendering a swathe of country the size of Warsaw uninhabitable.
NUCLEAR FAMILIES 2007
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Over the seven-week period, the hospital gave Karen the maximum 2,300 roentgens of X-ray.
First Man James R. Hansen 2005
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