Meaning of CURIE
| Pronunciation: | | 'kyûree, 'kyûree
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- [n] 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)
- [n] French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
- [n] 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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| | Synonyms: | | Ci, Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska, Pierre Curie |
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| | See Also: | | chemist, millicurie, physicist, radioactivity unit | |
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| | Definition: | | A unit of radioactive decay; equal to 3.70 x 1010 disintegrations per second. |
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