Becquerel

How To Use Becquerel In A Sentence

• A disintegration per second is also known as a Becquerel (Bq).
• Tap water in Kawaguchi City in Saitama north of Tokyo contained 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine — well above the 100 becquerels considered safe for babies but below the 300-becquerel level for adults, Health Ministry official Shogo Misawa said. Anxiety in Japan over radiation in tap water
• One sample taken in Glencree village recorded a reading of almost six times the safety limit of 1,000 becquerels per litre.
• ‘This analysis did confirm the existence of the contamination but at very low levels - up to 10 becquerels per kilogram - in an area not normally accessed by members of the public,’ said a spokeswoman for Sepa.
• Schools in the county had the highest average reading in the country of 153 becquerels, and one Kerry school had one of the highest readings in Ireland with more than 3800 becquerels per cubic metre being detected.
• The analyses also found cobalt - 60 values of up to 40 becquerels per kilogram, and pollution from cesium - 137 in concentrations of up to 9,400 becquerels per kilogram.
• According to Messrs Frémy and Becquerel, the term ozone ought to be abandoned; for, after a series of careful experiments, they have come to the conclusion, that there is no real transformation of matter in the production of ozone, but that it is nothing more than 'electrified oxygen,' or oxygen in a particular state of chemical affinity. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
• The idea that radioactive isotopes can be used for dating purposes is almost as old as Henri Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity itself in 1896.
• This year is the centennial of the Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Henri Becquerel and the Curies for their pioneering work on radioactivity.
• For one thing, the free-moving electrons, with which we are concerned in cathode rays and in some types of Becquerel rays, give rise to many interesting problems. Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture