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Curie| Noun | 1. | Curie - 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)chemist - a scientist who specializes in chemistry | | | 2. | Curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) | | | 3. | 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 secondmillicurie - a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | |
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