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Old 5th January 2012 | 04:09
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Citation 3: The first sentence is "The sievert is a measure of radiation dose." It then states that the sievert is to gray, as rem is to rad.

Firstly, the gray is the measure of radiation dose. The sievert is a measure of the biological impact of an ionizing dose (i.e. a dose equivalent) so, in this context the first sentence is misleading because it's a better description of what the gray is. Secondly, if you think it is necessary to use this citation to explain to the audience what a sievert is, then the audience is unlikely to have any idea what gray, rem or rad are.

Finally, sievert is a unit, and gray is a unit. So sievert does not have the same units as gray.
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