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curie
Ci
Definition: 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
Curie
Marie Curie
Madame Curie
Marya Sklodowska
Definition: 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)
Definition: 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.