Curie - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈkjʊrɪ|  American pronunciation of the word curie
Brit.  |ˈkjʊərɪ|  British pronunciation of the word curie

noun

- 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)

Extra examples

Polonium was discovered by Marie Curie in natural uranium.

The unit of activity is the curie.

Curie's research prepared the way for the work of modern nuclear scientists.

Marie Curie was a great scientist in her own right

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