curie
IPA: kjʊrˈi
noun
- 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
- A surname from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
- (semantic web) Acronym of compact URI expression.
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Examples of "curie" in Sentences
- This is now known as the Curie point.
- Curie temperature in piezoelectric material.
- Curie temperature in piezoelectric materials.
- Marie Curie won prizes in both physics and chemistry.
- Above the Curie temperature they are cubic and isotropic.
- Curie High School is a school with a wide variety of sports.
- Curie temperature in ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials ==.
- Marie Curie is considered french by a number of reputable sources.
- Another way to say this is this is sometimes called the Curie regime.
- He was the director of the Curie Laboratory of the Radium Institute in Paris.
- (A curie is a measure of radioactivity, with 1 curie equal to the activity of one gram of radium.
- The amount of emanation in equilibrium with one gramme of radium is called the curie, and with one
- The curie is a unit of radioactivity (3.7 x 1010 decays per second or 37 gigabecquerels) originally named in honor of Pierre Curie by the Radiology Congress in 1910.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 million curies of radiation escaped the damaged reactor core (a "curie" is a unit of radioactivity that denotes how many radioactive atoms in a particular collection of atoms are giving off radiation; 1 curie = 37 billion atoms giving off radiation).
- According to fifty medical, public health and child welfare experts and advocates who asked the NJ Supreme court for permission to file an amicus curie friend of the court brief in the case, the lower court decisions are based on popular assumptions about drugs, pregnant women, and child welfare that lack any foundation in evidence-based, peer-reviewed research.