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Phrases 5
- Curie temperatureThe temperature at which the magnetism of a substance changes, specifically when a ferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.
- Curie-Weiss lawA law describing the magnetic susceptibility of a ferromagnet in the paramagnetic region above the Curie temperature.
- Curie pointCurie temperature.
- Curie pointsplural of Curie point: Curie temperature.
- Curie temperaturesplural of Curie temperature: The temperature at which the magnetism of a substance changes, specifically when a ferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.
Compound words 11
- curiumA radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator.
- curiteAn orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.
- multicuriePertaining to, or emitting, multiple curies (radiation units).
- picocurieThe unit of radioactivity equal to 10⁻¹² curie: symbol pCi.
- curietherapybrachytherapy
- kilocurieA unit equal to 1,000 curies.
- microcurieA unit of radioactivity equal to one millionth of a curie. Symbol μCi.
- nanocurieA unit of radioactivity equal to 10⁻⁹ curie
- megacurieThe unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- millicurieThe unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie: symbol mCi.