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Meaning of "megacurie" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEGACURIE

megacurie  [ˈmeɡəˌkjʊərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEGACURIE

noun
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pronoun
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determiner
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Megacurie is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEGACURIE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Curie

The curie is a non-SI unit of radioactivity, named after Marie and Pierre Curie. It is defined as 1 Ci = 3.7 × 1010 decays per second. While its continued use is discouraged by NIST and other bodies, the curie is widely used throughout the US government and industry. One curie is roughly the activity of 1 gram of the radium isotope 226Ra, a substance studied by the Curies. The SI derived unit of radioactivity is the becquerel, which equates to one decay per second. Therefore: 1 Ci = 3.7 × 1010 Bq = 37 GBq = 37.000.000.000 atoms decaying per second and 1 Bq ≅ 2.703 × 10−11 Ci Another commonly used measure of radioactivity is the microcurie: 1 μCi = 3.7 × 104 disintegrations per second = 2.22 × 106 disintegrations per minute A radiotherapy machine may have roughly 1000 Ci of a radioisotope such as caesium-137 or cobalt-60. This quantity of radioactivity can produce serious health effects with only a few minutes of close-range, unshielded exposure. Ingesting even a millicurie is usually fatal. For example, the LD-50 for ingested polonium-210 is 240 μCi. The typical human body contains roughly 0.

Definition of megacurie in the English dictionary

The definition of megacurie in the dictionary is a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEGACURIE


curie
ˈkjʊərɪ
decury
ˈdɛkjʊərɪ
Dioscuri
ˌdaɪɒsˈkjʊərɪ
estuary
ˈɛstjʊərɪ
fury
ˈfjʊərɪ
January
ˈdʒænjʊərɪ
kilocurie
ˈkɪləˌkjʊərɪ
microcurie
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkjʊərɪ
micromicrocurie
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈmaɪkrəʊˌkjʊərɪ
millicurie
ˈmɪlɪˌkjʊərɪ
Newry
ˈnjʊərɪ
obituary
əˈbɪtjʊərɪ
ossuary
ˈɒsjʊərɪ
picocurie
ˈpiːkəʊˌkjʊərɪ
residuary
rɪˈzɪdjʊərɪ
sanctuary
ˈsæŋktjʊərɪ
statuary
ˈstætjʊərɪ
sumptuary
ˈsʌmptjʊərɪ
Urey
ˈjʊərɪ
Venturi
vɛnˈtjʊərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEGACURIE

megabit
megabuck
megabyte
megacephalic
megacephalous
megacephaly
megachurch
megacities
megacity
megacorporation
megacycle
megadeal
megadeath
megadose
megadyne
Megaera
megafarad
megafauna
megafaunal
megaflop

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEGACURIE

barrie
batterie
brasserie
brie
calorie
courie
Erie
Joliot-Curie
Kyrie
librairie
lingerie
lourie
Lurie
Marie
pourie
prairie
scourie
seigneurie
signeurie
tourie

Synonyms and antonyms of megacurie in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «megacurie» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEGACURIE

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Translator English - Chinese

megacurie
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

megacurie
570 millions of speakers

English

megacurie
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

megacurie
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميغاكوري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

megacurie
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

megacurie
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

megacurie
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

megacurie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Megacurie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

megacurie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

megacurie
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

megacurie
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Megacurie
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

megacurie
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

megacurie
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेगाक्युरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

megacurie
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

megacurie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

megacurie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

megacurie
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

megacurie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

megacurie
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

megacurie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

megacurie
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

megacurie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of megacurie

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGACURIE»

The term «megacurie» is used very little and occupies the 176.633 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGACURIE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about megacurie

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGACURIE»

Discover the use of megacurie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to megacurie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Absolute Dose Measurements on a Megacurie Co-60 Source by ...
This report describes the use of a 10-ounce Thermos flask, filled with water, for absolute standardization of a Megacurie Co-60 source.
Niels W. Holm, William B. Alexander, ARMY NATICK LABS MA FOOD DIV., 1964
2
New Scientist
One megacurie of fission products could deliver a million rads to about thirty tons of material a day. The cost of the treatment would depend on a number of factors, such as the way in which the fission products are used, and their initial cost.
3
Radiation standards, including fallout: hearings before the ...
0.4 megacurie total, 0.16 megacurie lay below 40 millibars and 0.24 megacurie lay at higher altitudes. It is estimated that 0.60 megacurie of strontium-90 from other sources, chiefly from United States and United Kingdom injections into the ...
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation, 1962
4
Radiation standards, including fallout: Hearings before the ...
0.4 megacurie total, 0.16 megacurie lay below 40 millibars and 0.24 megacurle lay at higher altitudes. It Is estimated that 0.60 megacurie of strontium-90 from other sources, chiefly from United States and United Kingdom injections into the ...
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation, 1962
5
The Composition of Sea-Water Comparative and Descriptive ...
... Spar at the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, New York, 1960), the total amount of 90Sr in the Northern Hemisphere was 0.5 megacurie while it was only 0.2 megacurie in the Southern Hemisphere ( Jan.
M. Hill, 2005
6
Handbook of Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse
For convenience, the curie may be extended to the megacurie or reduced to the picocurie. 1 megacurie (Me) = 3.7 x 10" dps = 106 c 1 curie (c) =3.7x 1010dps 1 millicune (me) = 3.7 x 10' dps = 1(H c 1 microcurie (u,c) = 3.7 x 10* dps = 1O6 c ...
Donald R. Rowe, Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid, 1995
7
Polypropylene: The Definitive User's Guide and Databook
The yellowness index is slightly higher in samples exposed to the 2.0 megacurie source of Cobalt 60 compared to samples exposed to the 1.6 or 3.5 megacurie source of the same isotope. Compared to Cobalt 60 sources, radiation from ...
Clive Maier, Theresa Calafut, 2008
8
Radiation Preservation of Foods: Proceedings of an ...
"Absolute Dose Measurements on a Megacurie Co-60 Source by Means of Calorimetry." Research Report, FD. U. S. Army Natick Laboratories, 1964. (In press) . 5. K. Sehested, A. Brynjolfsson, and N. W. Holm. "Determination of the Absorption ...
‎1965
9
Particle Physics and the Universe: Proceedings of Nobel ...
(11) However, natural chromium contains only 4.35 % 50Cr. Therefore, a Megacurie source is feasible only when large separation. The principal neutrino energy is 751 keV (mono-energetic). A major advantage of Cr is that y-emission is weak ...
‎2000
10
Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons ...
We have assumed 0.1 megacurie per megaton of explosive yield for strontium-90 and 0.16 megacurie per megaton for cesium-137. We also assumed that one- third of this radioactivity had decayed by 1993. We have escalated the estimated  ...
Arjun Makhijani, Howard Hu, Katherine Yih, 2000

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