1 Costochondritis. 2  In this condition, the cartilage of your rib cage, particularly the cartilage that joins your ribs to your breastbone, becomes inflamed and painful. 3  Sore muscles. 4  Chronic pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, can produce persistent muscle-related chest pain. In this condition, the cartilage of your rib cage, particularly the cartilage that joins your ribs to your breastbone, becomes inflamed and painful. 2  Sore muscles. 3  Chronic pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, can produce persistent muscle-related chest pain.
For other uses, see Decibel (disambiguation). The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit used to express the ratio of two values of a physical quantity. One of these values is often a standard reference value, in which case the decibel is used to express the level of the other value relative to this reference.
The decibel (abbreviated dB) confuses many people, perhaps because they assume it is an absolute unit or level of sound. The dB is not a unit in the sense that a metre or a kilogram are well-defined units of distance and weight.A decibel is the relationship or ratio between two sound levels, for example the measured sound pressure level and the minimum sound pressure level a person with good hearing can detect.imilarly if we had doubled the sound power i.e. two machines, then the measured increase would only be 3 dB. In the first case we had 10 times as much power and the log of 10 is 1 bel or 10 dB. Similarly twice as much power or a factor of 2 gives a log of 0.3 bels or 3 dB.