Curie
pronunciation
How to pronounce Curie in British English:
UK ['kjʊərɪ]
How to pronounce Curie in American English:
US ['kjʊrɪ]
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- 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
Word Origin
- curie (n.)
- "unit of radioactivity," 1910, named for Pierre Curie (1859-1906) or his wife, Marie (1867-1934), discoverers of radium.
Example
- 1. A few years later marie curie took a lover .
- 2. Marie curie , practising looking innocent .
- 3. Madame curie didn 't suffer as they did .
- 4. Becquerel handed the phenomenon off to his student marie curie and her husband pierre .
- 5. Expect for maybe mobile phones , which means that marie curie is responsible for things like the crazy frog .