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Disintegrations per minute to Becquerel Converter

Use this page to convert disintegrations per minute values into becquerel, with background details, formulas, a worked example, and a quick conversion table.

Conversion formula

1 dpm = 0.0166666666666667 Bq

1 Bq = 60 dpm

Example: 1000 dpm = 16.6666666666667 Bq

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Disintegrations per minute

The number of decays occurring in sixty seconds.

History: Practical unit for counting equipment that uses minute-long integration times.

Current use: Used in health physics and laboratory contamination checks.

Also written as dpm.

Becquerel

One becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second.

History: Named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie for their work in discovering radioactivity.

Current use: The standard international unit for radioactivity in medicine, science, and industry.

Also written as Bq, becquerels.

Disintegrations per minute to Becquerel table

Disintegrations per minute [dpm]	Becquerel [Bq]
0.01 dpm	0.000166666666666667 Bq
0.1 dpm	0.00166666666666667 Bq
1 dpm	0.0166666666666667 Bq
2 dpm	0.0333333333333333 Bq
5 dpm	0.0833333333333333 Bq
10 dpm	0.166666666666667 Bq
20 dpm	0.333333333333333 Bq
50 dpm	0.833333333333333 Bq
100 dpm	1.66666666666667 Bq