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Specific energy absorption
Domain: Health and safety at work => Risk factors => Radiations
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
Energy absorbed per unit mass of biological tissue, (SA) expressed in joule per kilogram (J kg21); specific energy absorption is the time integral of specific energy absorption rate.
Definition source
"Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic and electro-magnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)" - International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
European legislation
Amendment Directive 2004/40/CE, Recommendations 1999/512/EC, 1999/519/EC
British legislation
The Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999
Variants
SA
Related terms
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