National Bureau of Standards Handbook, Issue 64U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - Industrial safety |
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0.1 percent added filter air absorption alinement attenuation beam diameter Bureau of Standards Cā calibration capacitance capacitor coefficient collecting potential collection region collector and guard collector electrode collector length collector plate computation constant potential X-ray contact potential difference Cryogenic Cu+1 curve cylindrical diaphragm aperture distance dose rate Electrical electrometer electron-produced ionization electronic equilibrium Engineering error field distortion filtration of approximately free-air chamber guard electrodes guard plates guard wires high-speed electrons high-voltage plate hole inherent filtration ionization chamber ionization current ionization density ionization loss ionization produced kv kv kv Loss of electron-produced mass of air material meter National Bureau parallel-plate chamber Physics plane of definition potential X-ray beams potentiometer principle of electronic radii Radio Propagation radius resistor saturation current scatter secondary instruments standard chamber Swedish chamber temperature tion total electron ionization tungsten alloy two-dimensional voltage divider voltage source water vapor wires or strips X-RAY TUBE ŃŃ
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Page 1 - The unit of exposure dose of X- or gamma radiation is the roentgen (r). One roentgen is an exposure dose of X- or gamma radiation such that the associated corpuscular emission per 0.001293 g of air produces, in air, ions carrying 1 electrostatic unit of quantity of electricity of either sign.ā