curie
has definitions from the fields of physics,chemistry
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[ noun ] (chemistry) 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)
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[ noun ] (physics) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
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[ noun ] (physics) 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
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