becquerel

Meanings

Plural: becquerels

Noun

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

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.

Synonyms

Antoine Henri Becquerel, Henri Becquerel

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