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Curie

(Science: radiobiology) The conventional unit of activity of radioactive material decaying at a rate of 3.7 x E10 transformations per second (roughly equivalent to the activity of 1 gram of radium).

See: becquerel, 1 ci = 3.7 x E10 bq.


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