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Meanings of becquerel in English
French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)
SI unit of activity of a radioactive substance.
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Examples for "Henri Becquerel"
Examples for "Henri Becquerel"
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Radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.
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It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer.
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In honor of that discovery, the Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with their French colleague Henri Becquerel for his work with uranium.
Usage of becquerel in English
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In 1896 Becquerel brought us to the threshold of the great discovery.
2
A terabecquerel equals a trillion becquerels, a measure for radiation emissions.
3
Becquerel had no idea of such radiations, had never thought of their possibility.
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Becquerel began to experiment with a view to testing this supposition.
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Becquerel took to carrying a vial of uranium salt in his waistcoat pocket.
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Japan recently introduced a new safety limit of 100 becquerels per kilogram in food.
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In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Becquerel was the first, I believe, to use this property.
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Becquerel and Deslandres, M. Broca, Professor Michelson, and others-havepointed out some remarkable peculiarities.
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Becquerel per hour measures the amount of radiation emitted or the rate of radioactive decay.
11
This experience at least was as up-to-date as the Curies, Becquerel, Ramsay, and the rest.
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The safety level for adults is 300 becquerels.
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First of all I took out the two Becquerel ray-condensers that I had bought in Sydney.
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Radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.
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Seebeck, Becquerel, and others, also touched the discovery.
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Arago, F. Extracts from, in Becquerel, Des Climate.
Translations for becquerel
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