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Tables for Crystallography Volume C Mathematical, physical and chemical tables Edited by E. Prince © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. C. ch. 10.1, p. 958
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Ionizing radiation is defined as radiation that by its nature and energy has the capacity to interact with and remove electrons from (i.e. ionize) the atoms of substances through which the radiation passes. Sufficiently energetic radiations may cause permanent changes in the nuclei of the atoms of the substance. Radiation may be propagated in the form of electromagnetic radiation (X-rays and γ-rays) or particles (β and α particles, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles).
In the list of definitions that follows SI units will be used. The relation between these SI units and the earlier system of units is given in Table 10.1.1.
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