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A small region of a cancer patient’s brain is exposed for 24.0 min to 475 Bq of radioactivity from ⁶⁰Co for treatment of atumor. If the brain mass exposed is 1.858 g and β⁻ each particle emitted has an energy of 5.05X10⁻¹⁴J, what is the dose in rads?
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