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Noun curie has 3 senses
- Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska - 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)
--1 is a kind of chemist
- Curie, Pierre Curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
--2 is a kind of physicist
- curie, Ci - 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
--3 is a kind of radioactivity unit
--3 has parts: millicurie
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