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What is a curie?

What is a curie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
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The work of Professor and Mme. curie was merely the final clue to guide the great search.
If the radon is extracted and sealed separately in a tube, radium A, B, C, will accumulate and the penetrating radiation for one curie of radon will be the same as for one gramme of radium.
Now, at the same time as many other investigators, Professor curie and his Polish wife took up the search.
It is one of many similar pinches sealed in little glass tubes and owned by Professor curie, of Paris.
Professor curie himself has a number of bad scars on his hands and arms due to ulcers caused by handling radium.
Madame curie laughed as if she had never noticed this before.

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