Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
(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)
Curie, Pierre Curie
(noun) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
curie, Ci
(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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curie (plural curies)
3.7Ă—1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
• urcei, ureic
Curie
A surname, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
• urcei, ureic
Source: Wiktionary
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
