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Curie
noun 1.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. Synonym: Ci. 2.French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906). Synonym: Pierre Curie. 3.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). Synonyms: Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska.
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