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ˌbɛk əˈrɛlbec·quer·el

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Becquerel, Henri Becquerel, Antoine Henri Becquerelnoun

    French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)

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  1. becquerelnoun

    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq

  2. Etymology: Named after the physicist.

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  1. Becquerel

    The becquerel (English: ; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. For applications relating to human health this is a small quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used.The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Skłodowska Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity.

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  1. becquerel

    The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the International System of Units (SI) derived unit of radioactivity. It is defined as one radioactive decay per second, named after French physicist Henri Becquerel who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity.

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  1. Becquerel

    The becquerel is the SI-derived unit of radioactivity. One Bq is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. The Bq unit is therefore equivalent to an inverse second, s−1. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of becquerel in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of becquerel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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