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CURIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Curie; Madame Curie; Marie Curie; Marya Sklodowska
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
Synonyms:
Curie; Pierre Curie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("curie" is a kind of...):
radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)
Meronyms (parts of "curie"):
millicurie (a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie)
Context examples:
A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one Curie of the sample with total mass of one gram.
(Curie per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one Curie of the sample with total mass of one kilogram.
(Curie per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)
To demonstrate this versatility, the researchers constructed a simple "Curie engine".
(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one curie per unit volume equal to one liter.
(Curie per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of radioactivity defined as 3.7E-8 atomic disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second or one quintillionth of curie (10E-18 curie).
(Attocurie, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of radioactivity equal to one billionth of a curie or 37 becquerels, and corresponding to radioactivity of 37 atomic disintegrations per second.
(Nanocurie, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of radioactivity equal to one millionth of a curie or 37 kilobecquerels, and corresponding to a radioactivity of 37 000 atomic disintegrations per second.
(Microcurie, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie or 37 megabecquerels, and corresponding to a radioactivity of 37 millions of atomic disintegrations per second.
(Millicurie, NCI Thesaurus)
The light actuated materials created in this study are based on the principle of the Curie temperature—the temperature above which certain materials will change their magnetic properties.
(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
