BECQUEREL

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• BECQUEREL (noun)
  The noun BECQUEREL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BECQUEREL used as a noun is very rare.

• BECQUEREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Antoine Henri Becquerel; Becquerel; Henri Becquerel

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

A unit of radioactivity equal to 10E3 nuclear disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second, or to 10E3 becquerels.

(Kilobecquerel, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one billion becquerels per unit volume equal to one millionth of a liter.

(Gigabecquerel per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one thousand becquerels per unit volume equal to one millionth of a liter.

(Kilobecquerel per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of radioactivity equal to 10E6 nuclear disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second, or to 10E6 becquerels.

(Megabecquerel, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of radioactivity equal to one billionth of a curie or 37 becquerels, and corresponding to radioactivity of 37 atomic disintegrations per second.

(Nanocurie, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one million becquerels per unit volume equal to one millionth of a liter.

(Megabecquerel per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of radioactivity equal to 10E9 nuclear disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second, or to 10E9 becquerels.

(Gigabecquerel, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one becquerel per unit volume equal to one milliliter or one kilobecquerel per liter.

(Becquerel per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A metric unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one becquerel per unit volume equal to one liter.

(Becquerel per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one becquerel of the sample with total mass of one kilogram.

(Becquerel per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)