Meaning Of The Word Curie
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Curie in American English
a basic unit of radioactivity, equal to a rate of decay of 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations per second (3.7037 × 1010 becquerels): abbrev. Ci Marie(born Marie Sklodowska) 1867-1934; Pol. chemist & physicist in France: discovered polonium & radium (1898) in collaboration with her husband noun: a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 1010 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 g of radium-226 curie in British English noun: a unit of radioactivity that is equal to 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations per second noun: Marie (mari ). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henr |
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