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Definition of Becquerel

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

Definition of Becquerel

1. Noun. 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 ¹

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Definition of Becquerel

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Medical Definition of Becquerel

1. The Systeme Internationale (SI unit, MKS) unit of radioactivity (Bq), named after the discoverer of radioactivity and equal to 1 nuclear transition or disintegration per second. Use is fairly recent, superseding the Curie (Ci). 1Ci = 37 GBq (16 Dec 1997)

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