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Please don't. The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear: > The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be
by maxnoe 5mo ago
Please don't.
The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:
> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic
processes in activity referred to a radionuclide
Neither is usually the case for requests.
https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-en-pdf https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-en-pdf
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