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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROCURIE

microcurie  [ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkjʊərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROCURIE

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Microcurie is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MICROCURIE 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 microcurie in the English dictionary

The definition of microcurie in the dictionary is a millionth of a curie.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MICROCURIE


curie
ˈkjʊərɪ
decury
ˈdɛkjʊərɪ
Dioscuri
ˌdaɪɒsˈkjʊərɪ
estuary
ˈɛstjʊərɪ
fury
ˈfjʊərɪ
January
ˈdʒænjʊərɪ
kilocurie
ˈkɪləˌkjʊərɪ
megacurie
ˈmeɡəˌkjʊərɪ
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 MICROCURIE

micrococcus
microcode
microcomponent
microcomputer
microcomputing
microcopies
microcopy
microcosm
microcosmic
microcosmic salt
microcosmical
microcosmically
microcosmos
microcrack
microcrystal
microcrystalline
microcultural
microculture
microcyte
microcytic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROCURIE

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 microcurie in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «microcurie» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROCURIE

Find out the translation of microcurie to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of microcurie from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «microcurie» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

微居里
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

microcurie
570 millions of speakers

English

microcurie
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microcurie
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكروكوري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

микрокюри
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

microcurie
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

microcurie
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

microcurie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Microcurie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mikrocurie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マイクロキュリー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마이크로 퀴리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Microcurie
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

microcurie
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

microcurie
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायक्रोकर्मी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikroküri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

microcurie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mikrocurie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мікрокюрі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

microcurie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

microcurie
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

microcurie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mikrocurie
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mikrocurie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microcurie

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCURIE»

The term «microcurie» is used very little and occupies the 156.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROCURIE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «microcurie» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «microcurie» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROCURIE»

Discover the use of microcurie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to microcurie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nuclear Engineering Handbook
The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged • >300 cm2 (or the area of the surface if <300 cm2) does not exceed 4×104 Bq/cm2 (1.0 microcurie/ cm2) for beta and gamma and low-toxicity alpha emitters, or 4 × 103 Bq/cm2 (0.1  ...
Kenneth D. Kok, 2009
2
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
... not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 (10~4 microcurie/cm2) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm2 (10~5 microcurie/cm2) for all other alpha emitters; (ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 cm2 ...
‎1990
3
Glossary for the Worldwide Transportation of Dangerous Goods ...
... cm2) does not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 (10 microcurie/cm2) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm (I0"s microcurie/cm2) for alpha emitters; ( ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 cm2 (or  ...
Malcolm A. Fox, 1999
4
L.S.A., List of C.F.R. Sections Affected
... 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 (10*4 microcurie/cm2) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm2 (10'5 microcurie/cmZ) for all other alpha emitters; (ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged ...
‎2003
5
10 CFR Energy: CFR Parts 51-199
... not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 (10¥4 microcurie/cm2) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm2 (10¥5 microcurie/cm2) for all other alpha emitters; (ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 cm2 ...
Office of The Federal Register, 2013
6
7 CFR Agriculture: CFR Parts 1760-1939
microcurie/cm2) for all other alpha emitters; (ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 cm2 (or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 × 104 Bq/ cm2 (1.0 microcurie/cm2) for beta and ...
Office of The Federal Register, 2013
7
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 10, Energy, PT. 51-199, ...
... than 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 (10-4 microcurie/cm2) for beta and gamma and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm2 (10 - 5 microcurie/cm2) for all other alpha emitters; (ii) The fixed contamination on the accessible surface ...
Office of the Federal Register (U S ), 2010
8
Undergraduate Surgery
For example, the half-life of I,3, is 8-1 days, which means that an intial activity of 100 microcurie will be reduced to 50 microcurie after 8-1 days. In the same way, it will reduced to 25 microcurie after 16-2 days (2 half-lives), to 12-5 microcurie ...
A.K. Nan
9
Competition Science Vision
... not reflected by the target (B) They are not electromagnetic waves (C) They are completely absorbed by air (D) They sometimes damage the target 47. A radioactive sample with a half- life of 1 month has the label "Activity = 2 microcurie on ...
10
Lactic Acid Metabolism in the 18 Day Old Suckling Rat
Rat pups at 18 days of age weighing between 32 and 35 gram were injected subcutaneously between the scapulae with either L(+) (U-14-C) lactate (100 ci/ mole) at .43 microcurie/gram body weight or (U-14-C) glucose (316 ci/mole) at 1  ...
Howard Sheldon Mehler, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROCURIE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term microcurie is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Maplewood FD: How to Dispose of Old Smoke Detectors
It contains 0.9 microcurie of Americium 241, a radioactive material. The label may have the international symbol for radiation on the label.). «The Village Green, Jul 15»
2
#TBT: How the Radium Girls Turned Tragedy Into a Crusade
... few hundred to a few thousand “microcuries” of radium each year (one-tenth of a microcurie is considered to be the maximum safe exposure). «Los Angeles Confidential, May 15»
3
Can nuclear waste help humanity reach for the stars?
This isotope - in very small 1 microcurie quantities - provides the ionizing alpha radiation that makes smoke detectors in all our homes work. «The Planetary Society, Apr 15»
4
The Mosul Mystery: The missing uranium and where it came from
The university has an active physics faculty, but one of its leading lights, Dr Faika Azooz, wrote to say all they had there were one microcurie ... «The Guardian, Jul 14»
5
Radium-223: Sequence or Overlay in Advanced Prostate Cancer …
In brief, patients were allocated 2:1 to radium-223, 50 kBq/kg (1.35 microcurie/kg), intravenously, every 4 weeks for 6 cycles plus best standard ... «OncLive, May 14»
6
DIY CT scanner built for price of one commercial CT scan
After a lot of experimentation he settled on 10uCi (microCurie) Barium-133 as a source, which in radiation-speak, has a primary emission ... «ExtremeTech, Apr 14»
7
Genzyme drug for treating thyroid cancer is approved for wider use …
(The microcurie is a commonly used measure of radiation.) The approval by European regulators allows Thyrogen to be used in concert with ... «Boston.com, Dec 12»
8
Radioactive material stolen in Egypt
“They were small check sources, in the microcurie range,” says Chesser. “This is pretty low-level stuff, but it still is a concern that they are in ... «Nature.com, Jan 12»
9
Radiation in Food Rises
With iodine-131, if one were to reach the oral ingestion limit set by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of 30 microcurie, which is roughly ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 11»
10
Environmental Coverup: Radioactive Groundwater Contamination in …
... Protection Agency for tritium in drinking water supplies is 20,000 pCi/L or 0.02 microcuries per liter (a picocurie is a millionth of a microcurie). «Center for Research on Globalization, Jan 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Microcurie [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/microcurie>. Apr 2024 ».
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