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a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20Former name: relative biological effectiveness

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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