a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
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curie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | ci |
| Type of | radioactivity unit |
curie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | pierre curie |
curie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | madame curie, marie curie, marya sklodowska |
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A picocurie is one-trillionth of a curie, a measurement of a radiological dose.
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If a nuclear power station releases a few fractions of a curie its a nuclear disaster.
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Curie decided to look into uranium rays as a possible field of research for a thesis.
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Curie provided the tubes of radium, derived from the material she purified.
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Curie died in 1934 of aplastic anemia brought on by her years of exposure to radiation.
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Curie flits from one image to the next as her story emerges through accretion of the disparate.
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Curie, E. Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of radium.
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It is an abbreviated URI expressed in CURIE syntax, and may be found in both XML and non-XML grammars.
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Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
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- A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
- French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
- The curie (symbol Ci) is a unit of radioactivity, defined as
- Curie is a large lunar crater, much of which lies on the far side of the Moon as seen from the Earth. The western rim projects into the near side of the Moon, as defined by the selenographic coordinate system. ...
- Curie Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 29.1° N and 4.8° W. It is 114.1 km in diameter and was named after Pierre Curie, a French physicist-chemist (1859-1906).
- SM U-14 or U-XIV was a U-boat or submarine of the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War. She was launched in 1912 as the French Curie (Q 87), but captured and rebuilt for service in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. ...
- A unit of radioactivity that represents the amount of radioactivity associated with one gram of radium. To say that a sample of radioactive material exhibits one curie of radioactivity means that the element is emitting radiation at the rate of 3.7 million times a second. ...
- The amount of radioactivity in 1 gram of radium-226. One curie equals 37 billion radioactive disintegrations per second. To convert curies to microcuries, multiply by one million. Conversely, to convert microcuries to curies, divided by one million. ...
