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Curite vs Curie - What's the difference?

curite | curie |

As a noun curite

is (mineral) an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.

As a proper noun curie is

, especially referring to (marie curie) and her husband (pierre curie).

curite

English

Noun

  • (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.

    • References

    * Curite in the Mineralogy Database: [http://webmineral.com/data/Curite.shtml]

    curie

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia curie) (en noun)
  • 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

    • Derived terms

    * megacurie * microcurie * millicurie * picocurie

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