Concept information
Preferred term
Bqbecquerel
Definition
- The $\ extit{Becquerel}$ is the SI derived unit of activity, usually meaning radioactivity. Radioactivity is caused when atoms disintegrate, ejecting energetic particles. One becquerel is the radiation caused by one disintegration per second; this is equivalent to about $27.0270 \ ext{picocuries (pCi)}$. The unit is named for a French physicist, Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), the discoverer of radioactivity. Note: both the becquerel and the hertz are basically defined as one event per second, yet they measure different things. The hertz is used to measure the rates of events that happen periodically in a fixed and definite cycle. The becquerel is used to measure the rates of events that happen sporadically and unpredictably, not in a definite cycle.
Broader concept
- Activity (en)
Narrower concepts
- CUR Curie (en)
- GBQ Gigabecquerel (en)
- 2Q Kilobecquerel (en)
- 2R Kilocurie (en)
- 4N Megabecquerel (en)
- H08 Microbecquerel (en)
- M5 MicroCurie (en)
- mBq MilliBecquerel (en)
- MCU Millicurie (en)
- nBq NanoBecquerel (en)
- PBq petabecquerel (en)
- TBq terabecquerel (en)
Notation
- 0112/2///62720#UAA111
- Bq
- BQL
In other languages
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بيكريل
Arabic
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бекерел
Bulgarian
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贝克勒尔
Chinese
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becquerel
Czech
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English
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French
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German
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μπεκερέλ
Greek
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בקרל
Hebrew
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बैक्वेरल
Hindi
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becquerel
Hungarian
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ベクレル
Japanese
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becquerelium
Latin
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becquerel
Malay
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بکرل
Persian
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bekerel
Polish
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becquerel
Portuguese
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becquerel
Romanian
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беккерель
Russian
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becquerel
Slovenian
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Spanish
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bekerel
Turkish
URI
https://vocab.sentier.dev/units/unit/BQ
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