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SI unit of absorbed radiation dose. It replaces the rad (1 Gy equals 100 rad), and is defined as the dose absorbed when one kilogram of matter absorbs one joule of ionizing radiation. Different types of radiation cause different amounts of damage for the same absorbed dose; the SI unit of dose equivalent is the sievert.



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``The Western experience of communism, if you go back to the '30s and '40s, began as this heady mix of energy and good intentions, and it ended grayly and sadly in front of television screens, with people watching statues of Lenin being razed to the ground,'' said Duncan.
`CHILDREN' PULLS THE PARTY'S LINE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
s air, Abeles created a host of artworks including images of food on chinaware, likenesses of lungs on sheets of glass, and, most amusingly, a set of commemorative plates on which the faces of American presidents are grayly portrayed by the thin layer of pollution.
Kim Abeles by Gerstler, Amy / Artforum International
Fifteen years later, on this drizzly July afternoon in 1988 as the sky hung grayly over mountains to the east, we were here again for a further look, crawling like three salamanders under the bushes, over and around slickmossed, decaying cull logs from the 1960s, our rubber boots mucking in jet-black organic mud.
Return to Admiralty by McLean, Herbert E. / American Forests
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