Curie

How To Use Curie In A Sentence

• If a person drank water contaminated to a level of 75,000 picocuries per liter for an entire year, they would receive an internal radiation dose of about 16 mrem, which is far below the natural variations in the average annual dose of 360 mrem in the US. Atomic Insights Blog
• The main component of the Earth's field – which defines the magnetic poles – is a dipole generated by the convection of molten nickel-iron in the outer core the inner core is solid, so its role is secondary; remember that the Earth's core is well above the Curie temperature, so the iron is not ferromagnetic. Does Zonal Swishing Play a Part in Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals? | Universe Today
• I will use these decuries as the jury base, though no decury will be permanently seconded to duty in one particular court. Fortune's Favorites
• Others again discuss the news, and are deep in the store of "mercuries" here to be found. All About Coffee
• The story of the Curie's four-year struggle to purify, purify, and purify over again the components of pitchblende has now been told in popular novels, plays, and motion pictures.
• During her years of work, Curie coined the term radioactivity, and named Polonium. Archive 2010-03-01
• But the intolerable thudding forced her back onto the vanity stool, where there she reassumed her daily shape: poor sad, achingly human Beverly Saunders, to whom no Dr. Alfred Curie would ever deign to speak. The Color of Silence is Radium Green
• Following the discovery of artificial radioactivity by M and Mme. Joliot-Curie and the use of neutrons by Fermi for atomic nuclear processes, Hahn again collaborated with Professor Meitner and afterwards with Dr. Strassmann on the processes of irradiating uranium and thorium with neutrons. Otto Hahn - Biography
• I also built a transistorized Geiger counter to perform experiments with a radioactive sample of 0.1 millicurie of Mesothorium which Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography
• The sides of the various glass tubes were as clean as when they were new, and the surfaces of the mercuries were as bright as looking glasses. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887