National Bureau of Standards Handbook, Issue 64

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - Industrial safety

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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€Ž

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