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'''Warning:''' If hard core NMR or physics theory is not to your taste, please do not read any further!
This The concept of the hidden radian unit is quite important for understanding relaxation in NMR or, in fact, any rotational process in physics. It For example it is important for understanding the model-free equations, for reduced spectral density mapping, for SRLS, and for relaxation dispersion. The In these cases, the reason is because relaxation rates are measured in rad/s. As described in [[#SI supplementary units]], the radian unit can be dropped because it is plainly obvious that NMR and relaxation is an angular process and hence radian units are implied (if you didn't get that, that was sarcasticsarcasm). Hence R2 can be said to be in units of 1/s, but never, ever Hz. Also note that because of the SI conventions described below, describing the correlation time in s units does not imply that there are no radian units. But reporting rates as Hz implies no radian units whereas reporting as 1/s instead indicates that radian units are present.
This is also a follow on from the [https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-devel/2007-06/msg00012.html comprehensive unit analysis of Abragam's relaxation equations].
 
The text below uses quotes from many different sources to demonstrate that the hidden radian unit is actually very much present in everything we do in NMR.
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