curie
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- noun
- /ˈkjʊəri/
- Archaic
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curie
- Some 6 million curies were released at Chernobyl.
- million curies
Examples
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In comparison, the 1986 Chernobyl accident released about 40 percent of the reactor core's 6 million curies.
Blog text (25) -
By 1959, the facility released into the river about 13,300 curies per day, and that was after four hours of decay time.
Academic text (1990) -
The Soviet Union and Russia basically have claimed that about 50 million curies.
Blog text (33) -
In total, those facilities contain approximately 28 million curies of radioactive material.
Academic text (2012) -
One curie is 37 billion atoms decaying per second.
Academic text (1990) -
A spent fuel pool would contain tens of millions of curies of Cs-137.
Blog text (25) -
The explosion at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spewed out tens of millions of curies of these isotopes.
Academic text (1999) -
The panel looked at the years 1944 through 1947, a period that saw the release of some 440,000 curies of radioactive iodine (I-131) into the air.
Academic text (1990) -
The power plant emitted over a hundred curies of radioactivity during the emergency shutdown.
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After the nuclear accident, the area was contaminated with several million curies of radioactive isotopes.
Synonyms
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A unit that measures radioactivity equal to 37 billion atoms breaking apart each second
Compounds
- Specialized
Temperature at which a magnetic material loses its strong, permanent magnetism when heated
- Specialized
The temperature above which a magnetic material loses its strong magnetism and becomes weakly magnetic
How Radioactive
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word curie is a unit named after the scientists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, who studied 'radioactivity' and discovered new radioactive elements. So, a curie measures how strong a material's 'radioactivity' is, which is why we use it to show the power of radioactive substances.