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- noun physics A
unit ofionizing radiation equal to 10-6sieverts
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Examples
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A microsievert is a dose of radiation, but what danger - if any - does it pose?
NPR Topics: News 2011
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A microsievert a minute is equivalent to a chest X-Ray every two hours -- a very big deal indeed.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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One expert said, intending to be reassuring, that the level being experienced in California was only "one microsievert", about 1/100th of the exposure from a chest X-ray.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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A microsievert a minute is equivalent to a chest X-Ray every two hours -- a very big deal indeed.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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A microsievert a minute is equivalent to a chest X-Ray every two hours -- a very big deal indeed.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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One expert said, intending to be reassuring, that the level being experienced in California was only "one microsievert", about 1/100th of the exposure from a chest X-ray.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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A correction on Saturday incorrectly said that a microsievert is 1,000 millisieverts.
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One expert said, intending to be reassuring, that the level being experienced in California was only "one microsievert", about 1/100th of the exposure from a chest X-ray.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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One expert said, intending to be reassuring, that the level being experienced in California was only "one microsievert", about 1/100th of the exposure from a chest X-ray.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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A microsievert a minute is equivalent to a chest X-Ray every two hours -- a very big deal indeed.
Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011
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