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

1 pCi = 0.037 Bq

1 Bq = 27.027027027027 pCi

Example: 1000 pCi = 37 Bq

One picocurie is equal to one trillionth of a curie (1.0E-12 curies), or 0.037 becquerels.

History: Standard prefix applied to the curie.

Current use: Common in US environmental health for measuring radon in air/water.

Also written as pCi.

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.