Definition of Curie

Noun

  • 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)
    - marie curie - madame curie - marya sklodowska
  • French physicist
    husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
    - pierre curie
  • 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
    - ci
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25 unscramble word found using the letters curie.

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