Associations to the word «Curie»

CURIE, noun. 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

CURIE, proper noun. A surname, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.

CURIE POINT, noun. Curie temperature.

CURIE POINTS, noun. Plural of Curie point

CURIE TEMPERATURE, noun. (chemistry) (physics) The temperature at which the magnetism of a substance changes, specifically when a ferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.

CURIE TEMPERATURES, noun. Plural of Curie temperature

CURIE, noun. 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.

CURIE, noun. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).

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).