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Rad [rd]: A Legacy Unit of Absorbed Radiation Dose

The rad (short for radiation absorbed dose) is a legacy unit used to measure the amount of ionizing radiation energy absorbed per unit mass of material. It was widely used before the adoption of the gray (Gy) in the International System of Units (SI).

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  1 rad = 0.01 gray (Gy)

  
  
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  This means that 1 rad corresponds to the absorption of 0.01 joules of radiation energy per kilogram of matter.

  
  

The rad was commonly used in medical, industrial, and scientific settings to quantify radiation doses. Although now largely replaced by the gray for consistency and international standardization, the rad is still sometimes referenced in older research, medical records, and certain fields.

The rad and its subunits (like the millirad) helped establish the groundwork for understanding radiation exposure and effects before the transition to the more precise and universally accepted gray unit.

Exagray [EGy]: The Pinnacle of Radiation Dose Measurement

The exagray (EGy) is a unit of absorbed radiation dose equal to 1 quintillion grays (10¹⁸ Gy)—one billion billion grays. This represents an almost incomprehensibly large amount of radiation energy absorbed per kilogram of matter.

Such an extreme scale is purely theoretical and is only applicable in the most abstract realms of theoretical physics and cosmology, including:

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  Modeling radiation in the earliest moments of the Big Bang.

  
  
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  Exploring extreme environments near cosmic singularities or during high-energy astrophysical phenomena.

  
  
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  Simulating conditions in hypothetical or future ultra-high-energy physics experiments that go beyond current technology.

  
  

At the exagray level, matter as we know it cannot exist; atoms and subatomic particles would be utterly annihilated or transformed, making the concept of absorbed dose more a theoretical construct than a measurable quantity.

The exagray emphasizes the sheer versatility of the gray unit, illustrating its ability to scale from the tiniest doses relevant to biology up to the unimaginable extremes of cosmic radiation and fundamental physics.