curie
居里,居里夫人,居里夫,库里
Definitions
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Physics, Chemistry.
- : a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 1010 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226. Abbreviation: Ci
Examples
Moret said that while Curie saw a single-digit decline in sales the first two weeks of July compared to the same period in June, sales have since picked up again.
Moret said that while Curie’s sales have been up, she’s spent more on inventory over the past few months.
That would be Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, the gal who discovered radioactive polonium.
Screenplays for Marie Antoinette, The Women, and Madame Curie fizzled.
Radium was discovered in 1898 by M. and Madame Curie and M. Bmont, while experimenting with the uranium mineral pitchblende.
They say that her marriage with M. Curie was just such a union, as must have produced some fine result.
M. Curie made this experiment recently at a reception in Lille, to the great delight of the guests.
I suggested to M. Curie the possibility that some philanthropist might be inspired on reading his words to help the new cause.
After we had been in the darkness for some time M. Curie wrapped the radium tube in thick paper and put it in my hand.