Curie Definition

kyo͝orē, kyo͝o-rē
noun
A basic unit of radioactivity, equal to a rate of decay of 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations per second (3.7037 × 1010 becquerels): abbrev. Ci.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Marya Sklodowska
  • Madame Curie
  • Marie Curie
  • ci
  • pierre curie
pronoun

A surname, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.

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Noun

Singular:
curie
Plural:
curies

Origin of Curie

  • Borrowing from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906).

    From Wiktionary

  • After Pierre Curie

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Curie Sentence Examples

  • For his researches in this department he was in 1903 awarded a Nobel prize jointly with Pierre Curie.

  • Curie has shown, for many paramagnetic bodies, that the specific susceptibility K is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature 0.

  • Du Bois believes this to be an important general law, applicable to the case of every paramagnetic substance, and suggests that the product KB should be known as " Curie's constant " for the substance.

  • Hence may be deduced an explanation of the fact that, while the susceptibility of all known diamagnetics (except bismuth and antimony) is independent of the temperature, that of paramagnetics varies inversely as the absolute temperature, in accordance with the law of Curie.

  • Professor Curie, who was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1905, was run over by a dray and killed instantly in Paris on the 19th of April 1906.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUR

Words Ending With

EIERIE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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