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Q.Write two units of radioactivity. How are they interrelated?

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Step 1. Radioactive decay rate (activity) is measured in disintegrations per second (dps), and two named units express this.

Step 2. The curie (Ci) is defined as exactly 3.7 x 10^10 dps (historically set to match the activity of about one gram of radium-226).

Step 3. The becquerel (Bq) is the modern SI unit, defined simply as 1 Bq = 1 dps -- a much smaller unit than the curie. …

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