Strontium unit Strontium unit The strontium unit is a unit used to measure the amount of radioactivity from strontium-90, a radionuclide found in nuclear fallout, in a subject's body. Since the human body absorbs strontium as if it were calcium, incorporating it into the skeleton, its presence is very common. One strontium unit is equal to one picocurie from strontium-90 per gram of calcium (37 becquerels per kilogram) in the subject's skeleton. The United States National Academy of Sciences holds that the maximum safe measure of strontium-90 in a person is one hundred strontium units (3700 Bq/kg). The average American is estimated
Orders of magnitude (mass) Orders of magnitude (mass) To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10 kg and 10 kg. The table below is based on the kilogram (kg), the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI). The kilogram is the only standard unit to include an SI prefix ("kilo-") as part of its name. The "gram" (10 kg) is an SI derived unit of mass. However, the "names" of all SI mass units are based on "gram", rather than on "kilogram"; thus 10 kg is a "megagram" (10 g), not a