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Definition of Microcurie
1. Noun. A unit or radioactivity equal to one millionth of a curie: Symbol ?Ci ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Microcurie
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Microcurie
1. One-millionth of a curie; a quantity of any radionuclide with 3.7 × 104 disintegrations per second. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcurie
Literary usage of Microcurie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nuclear Science and Technology: State-of-the-Art Review on Technology for by M. Hulot (1995)
"The/ Directive modified the previous one and changed the values of the limits
which became 5000 Bq instead of 0.1 microcurie and 100 Bq/g instead of 0.002 ..."
2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
""It may be administered as baths, by subcutaneous injection in the neighborhood
of an involved joint (0.05 to 0.5 microcurie in i or 2 cc distilled water), ..."
3. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1921)
"Another still smaller unit is the microcurie (symbol mcc., ... Here it will
suffice to say that a concentration of one microcurie per liter is equivalent to ..."
4. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"A curie represents the amount of emanation in equilibrium with one gram of radium;
a "microcurie," ie, one millionth of a curie, is the amount of emanation ..."
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