Curie
['kjʊərɪ] or ['kjʊri]
Definition
(noun.) 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).
(noun.) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).
(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.
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Examples
- Curie succeeded in obt aining the pure chloride of radium and in determinin g the atomic weight of the new element. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Curie that the energy of one gram of radium would suffice to lift a weight of five hundred tons to a height of one mile. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Curie in honor of her native country, was the third radioactive element to be discovered. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Curie) polonium was found associated with bismuth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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