becquerel

The becquerel (; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as an activity of one per second, on average, for aperiodic activity events referred to a radionuclide. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used.

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A becquerel is the standard unit used to measure radioactivity, defined as one radioactive decay event occurring per second. It's a very small amount for practical purposes involving human health, so scientists typically use larger multiples of the unit instead.

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Unit.name: becquerel
Unit.image: Radium 226 radiation source 1.jpg
Unit.caption: Radium-226 radiation source. Activity 3300 Bq (3.3 kBq)
Unit.standard: SI
Unit.quantity: activity
Unit.symbol: Bq
Unit.namedafter: Henri Becquerel
Unit.units1: rutherford
Unit.units2: curie
Unit.inunits2: ≅
Unit.units3: SI base unit
Unit.inunits3: s−1

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Commons category: Becquerel (unit)
inception: 1975-00-00
unit symbol: Bq
conversion to SI unit: 1

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Definition
Unit capitalization and prefixes
Examples
Relation to the curie
Relation to other radiation-related quantities
See also
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The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity.