Re: Metric unit examples

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1 total messages Started by Robert Curtis Sat, 03 Sep 1994 22:16

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Author: Robert Curtis
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 1994 22:16

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> Physical Science Teacher, Butler High School
> Phone: (502)241-0179_(h)  (502)473-8220 (w)
>   I would like to add some perspective to some of Fred's examples. I have
> worked in the Nuc Power industry for several years. Barns from the side of a
> BARN I believe is a proper interpretation. I think that the unit Curie is
> related to the research that was done by Madame Curie wrt radioactivity.
>   Another "funny" term is "SCRAM." This term came from the Fermi Lab in
> Chicago(I think) during some of the original critical testing, and was the
> term used to get the "Safety Control Rod Ax Man" to chop the ropes holding the
> control rods up. I won't swear to the validity of this term, but it sure
> sounds like a good description of how it all began. I learned this fact during
> my Naval Career under Admiral Rickover.
>
> shcomp01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
>

I hope that we understand that these are not metric units.... But, by the
way the curie is the number of disintergrations per second of one gram of
radium: 3.7E10 Bq.

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