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French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)
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becquerel
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Becquerel is a lunar crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon . This is an ancient and heavily worn formation that is now little more than an irregular depression in the surface. The outer rim has been worn and reshaped until ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Children with more than 60 becquerels of radioactivity per kilo of bodyweight are thought to be at risk from disease. ▪ It had a caesium 137 concentration of only 4 becquerels per kilogram. ▪ One becquerel is equal to one radioactive ...
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n. 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
Usage examples of becquerel.
The Becquerels were set within three-inch tripods, whose feet I had equipped with vacuum rings to enable them to hold fast to the rock.
In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer.
Harding, after mature consideration, decided to manufacture a very simple battery, resembling as nearly as possible that invented by Becquerel in 1820, and in which zinc only is employed.
First of all I took out the two Becquerel ray-condensers that I had bought in Sydney.
First of all I took out the two Becquerel ray-condensers that I had boughtin Sydney.
Becquerel had shown that by placing some uranium salt on a photographic plate, covered with black paper, the plate would be affected as if light had fallen on it.