curie
noun C2- 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
Plural curies
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Marie Curie was a very famous scientist.
The work brought her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964; she was only the third woman to receive it, after Marie Curie and Curie's daughter Irène.
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