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Curie's law

Curie's law  

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Science and technology, Chemistry
The susceptibility (χ) of a paramagnetic substance is proportional to the thermodynamic temperature (T), i.e. χ = C/T, where C is the Curie constant. A modification of this law, the Curie-Weiss law, ...
Curie point

Curie point  

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Science and technology, Chemistry
The temperature at which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes only paramagnetic. For iron the Curie point is 760°C and for nickel 356°C. It is named after Pierre Curie.
Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie  

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(1897–1956)French physicist who, in collaboration with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–58), discovered artificial radioactivity. For this they were awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for ...
André Louis Debierne

André Louis Debierne  

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(1874–1949) French chemistBorn in Paris, France, Debierne was educated at the Ecole de Physique et Chemie. After graduation he worked at the Sorbonne and as an assistant to Pierre and Marie Curie, ...
Marie Curie

Marie Curie  

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(1867–1934)Polish-born French chemist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She shared the 1903 prize with her husband, the physicist Pierre ...
piezoelectricity

piezoelectricity  

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Science and technology, Earth Sciences and Geography
An electric charge induced by a flow of electrons when pressure is applied at the ends of a polar axis of a crystal which lacks a centre of symmetry (see crystal symmetry) and which has different ...
Antoine Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel  

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(1852–1908) French physicist.His early researches were in optics; then, in 1896, he accidentally discovered radioactivity in fluorescent salts of uranium. Three years later he showed that it consists ...

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