curies in English

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name of French physicists Marie ( 1867–1934 ) , born Maria Sklodowska in Poland, and her husband Pierre ( 1859–1906 ) ; pioneers in radioactivity. Working together on the mineral pitchblende, they discovered the elements polonium and radium. After her husband's accidental death, Marie isolated radium. She died of leukemia, caused by prolonged exposure to radioactive materials. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Becquerel.
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a unit of radioactivity, corresponding to 3.7 × 10 10 disintegrations per second.
The activity (rate of decay) of Rn is expressed in units called curies .
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1. Becquerels (Bq) curies (Ci) 2.7 x 10-11

2. The Curies are best known for discovering radium.

3. How to convert curies to Becquerels [Ci to Bq]:

4. The Curies tried to compare their rays with Becquerel’s rays, to find the commonalties.

5. The Nobel Committee investigated the research done by Becquerel and both of the Curies.

6. This made it possible for the Curies to separate out the radioactive compounds and discover a new element in them.

7. Others are more subtle: The difference between the raw physical units describing radiation emitted by a radioactive material (measured in units like curies and Becquerels), versus measurements

8. How many Becquerels in 8 curies: If Ry Ci = 8 then Ry Bq = 37 000 000 000 × 8 = 296 000 000 000 Bq

9. A few curies (1 curie equals 37 gigabecquerels, 1 Ci = 37 GBq) of 210Po emit a blue glow which is caused by ionisation of the surrounding air.

10. What are Curies, Becquerels, Rems, Rads, Grays, Sieverts, Roentgens, Q, RBE etc.? Here are some answers (quotes are taken from my book, The Code Killers (URL for free download: www.acehoffman.org )

11. Curie An obsolete unit of radioactivity (i.e., radioactive decay) equal to 3.7 x 1010 disintegrations/sec of a radioactive nuclide, roughly equivalent to the activity of 1 g of radium; the Curie was replaced by the SI-derived unit for radioactivity, the Becquerel (2.70 x 10-11 Curies).

12. Curie An obsolete unit of radioactivity (i.e., radioactive decay) equal to 3.7 x 1010 disintegrations/sec of a radioactive nuclide, roughly equivalent to the activity of 1 g of radium; the Curie was replaced by the SI-derived unit for radioactivity, the Becquerel (2.70 x 10-11 Curies).