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  2. MGY - Wikipedia

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    MGY or a variant thereof is used as an abbreviation for: Megagray (MGy) and milligray (mGy), SI derived units of the gray (absorbed radiation dose) mgy, MGY, mmgy, MMgy, or MMGY: Million gallons per year

  3. Flight-time equivalent dose - Wikipedia

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    List of radiologial exposures from various sources Activity Event Type Dose FED Airport x-ray full body scan: singular: 0.00001 mSv [6] 9 flight-seconds One hour of sun exposure: singular: 0.00004 mSv [5] 36 flight-seconds Household smoke detector: annual: 0.00008 mSv [7] 1.2 flight-minutes Living near a nuclear generating station: annual: 0. ...

  4. Röntgen equivalent physical - Wikipedia

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    It is the absorbed energetic dose before the biological efficiency of the radiation is factored in. The rep has variously been defined as 83 or 93 ergs per gram of tissue (8.3/9.3 mGy) [2] or per cm 3 of tissue. [3] At the time, this was thought to be the amount of energy deposited by 1 roentgen. [4]

  5. Orders of magnitude (radiation) - Wikipedia

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    Human internal radiation due to radon, varies with radon levels [8] 2 2 × 10 ^ 0: Acute-Head CT [7] 3 3 × 10 ^ 0: Annual: 0.34: USA average dose from all natural sources [6] 3.66 3.66 × 10 ^ 0: Annual: 0.42: USA average from all sources, including medical diagnostic radiation doses [citation needed] 4 4 × 10 ^ 0: Duration of the pregnancy: 0.6

  6. Gray (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The adoption of the gray by the 15th General Conference on Weights and Measures as the unit of measure of the absorption of ionizing radiation, specific energy absorption, and of kerma in 1975 [17] was the culmination of over half a century of work, both in the understanding of the nature of ionizing radiation and in the creation of coherent ...

  7. List of New York City agencies - Wikipedia

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    The New York City Office of the Actuary (NYCOA) provides actuarial information and services for the five major New York City Retirement Systems and Pension Funds. The New York City Board of Education Retirement System (BERS) was founded on August 31, 1921.

  8. List of airports in New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    New York: JRB: JRB KJRB Downtown Manhattan/Wall St. Heliport: GA 51 New York: 6N5: TSS: East 34th Street Heliport: GA 3 New York: 6N7: NYS: New York Skyports Inc. Seaplane Base: GA 0 New York: JRA: JRA KJRA West 30th Street Heliport: GA 79 Norwich: OIC: OIC KOIC Lt. Warren Eaton Airport (Chenango County Airport) GA 16 Olean: OLE: OLE KOLE ...

  9. Aviation in the New York metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The New York City Police Department leases facilities for their helicopter operations from the National Park Service. Flushing Airport was another early airport in New York City. It opened in 1927 and was the busiest airport in New York for a time. A decade later it was overshadowed by the larger LaGuardia Airport located nearby.