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Petabecquerel

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-004238

A unit of radioactivity equal to one quadrillion (10¹⁵) becquerels, symbolized as PBq. This large unit is used to quantify the total radioactive material released during major nuclear incidents or contained within large-scale nuclear waste inventories. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is estimated to have released about 5,200 petabecquerels of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-004238
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMetrology and inspection
TranslationsGerman: Petabecquerel; Spanish: petabecquerel; French: pétabecquerel
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "A unit of radioactivity equal to one quadrillion (10¹⁵) becquerels, symbolized as PBq. This large unit is used to quantify the total radioactive material released during major nuclear incidents or contained within large-scale nuclear waste inventories. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is estimated to have released about 5,200 petabecquerels of radioactive material into the atmosphere.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Petabecquerel",
    "es": "petabecquerel",
    "fr": "pétabecquerel"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/petabecquerel/"
}

Record 4,639 of 7,361 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.