Becquerel Definition

bĕ-krĕl, bĕkə-rĕl
noun
The International System unit of radioactivity, equal to one nuclear decay or other nuclear transformation per second.
American Heritage
The basic unit of radioactivity in the SI system, equal to a rate of decay of one disintegration per second (2.7 × 10-11 curies): abbrev. Bq.
Webster's New World

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.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • antoine henri becquerel
  • Henri Becquerel

Other Word Forms of Becquerel

Noun

Singular:
becquerel
Plural:
becquerels

Origin of Becquerel

  • Borrowing from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Antoine Henri Becquerel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Becquerel Sentence Examples

  • His Son, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), was born in Paris on the 24th of March 1820, and was in turn his pupil, assistant and successor at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle; he was also appointed professor at the short-lived Agronomic Institute at Versailles in 1849, and in 1853 received the chair of physics at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.

  • The Becquerel rays have a marked chemical action on certain substances.

  • Antoine Cesar Becquerel (1788-1878), was born at Chatillon sur Loing on the 8th of March 1788.

  • Edmond Becquerel was associated with his father in much of his work, but he himself paid special attention to the study of light, investigating the photochemical effects and spectroscopic characters of solar radiation and the electric light, and the phenomena of phosphorescence, particularly as displayed by the sulphides and by compounds of uranium.

  • In 1903 they were awarded the Davy medal of the Royal Society in recognition of this work, and in the same year the Nobel prize for physics was divided between them and Henri Becquerel.

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