May 4, 2021
Rad is an (obsolete, replaced by Gray) unit of absorbed dose. The sentence "the particle beam was around 200,000 rads" does not have any physical meaning, as a beam can't have an absorbed dose (only a dose rate).
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Written by Thomas Baumgartner
Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.
