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curie

/kjʊəri/ noun · British & US
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noun

A unit of radioactivity, equal to 3.7 × 10^10 decays per second. A French physicist, Marie Curie, who pioneered radioactivity research.

Example

"The scientist measured the curie of the radioactive sample."

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