curie

     

The curie (symbol Ci) is a unit of raioactivity, defined as

Trivia about curie

  • Last name of the husband & wife with an atomic weight of 247
  • For a French physicist, this unit of radioactivity: Ci
  • Marie Sklodowska
  • The becquerel is a unit of radiation that has replaced this, the name of Henri Becquerel's co-Nobel Prize winners
  • Originally, this unit of measure was the amount of radioactivity given off by one gram of radium