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curie
cu·rie [ kyoor-ee, kyoo-ree ]
Etymology:
Eponym. In honor of physicists Pierre and Marie Curie.
Definitions related to curie:
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(ci) A unit of radioactivity defined as 3.7 E10 atomic disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second. One Curie is equal to 37 gigabecquerels.(NCI)CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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A unit of radioactivity in the CGS system, defined as 3.7 E10 atomic disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second. One curie is equal to 37 gigabecquerels.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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