Talk:Specific absorption rate

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Why is the hazards discussed in relation to a pure technical measurement unit? I think that that discussion should be moved to the "Electromagnetic radiation hazard" page.

I will give it a graze period and then remve the hazrd discussion. I do not think that it belongs here either.Mossig 21:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually the SAR has primarily been used for measuring RF absorption due to MRI, not cell phones. 1 SAR is defined as 1Watt / kg = 1 Joule / kg s

So why aren't the units sieverts per second? Gene Nygaard (talk) 12:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

It could be, but as sievert are mainly used for ionizing radiation SAR from RF-fields are described as measured in W/Kg. I have never seen SAR used as a unit, as proposed above. Mossig (talk) 20:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I figured it was something like that, but I'd forgotten how to characterize it. Gene Nygaard 22:57, 30 November 2007 (UTC)