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rutherford


An obsolete term for a unit of radioactivity, representing that quantity of radioactive material in which a million disintegrations are taking place per second; 37 rutherford equal 1 mCi.

See: Becquerel.

Origin: Ernest Rutherford, British physicist and Nobel laureate, 1871-1937