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becquerel

SI unit of radioactivity, equal to one radioactive disintegration (change in the nucleus of an atom when a particle or ray is given off) per second.

The becquerel is much smaller than the previous standard unit, the curie (3.7 × 1010 Bq). It is named after French physicist Henri Becquerel.


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The Cekmece team found that new tea shoots forming at the time of the Chernobyl accident -- May 1986 -- incorporated enough cesium to produce a peak radioactivity of up to 25,000 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg) of dry leaves.
 
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