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CURIE
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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
curie (plural curies)
3.7Ă—1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
Anagrams
• urcei, ureic
Etymology
Proper noun
Curie
A surname, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
Anagrams
• urcei, ureic
Source: Wiktionary
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