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Ci is abbreviation for curie, which is a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 10 10 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226.

rem: the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.

mrem is a millirem & mCi is a millicurie.

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