becquerel

• Nome próprio referente ao físico francês Antoine Henri Becquerel, conhecido pela descoberta da radioatividade natural nas sais de urânio. Também designa a unidade de medida de radioatividade no Sistema Internacional, igual a uma desintegração por segundo.

A proper noun referring to a French physicist known for discovering that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates.

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   Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), a French physicist who discovered radioactivity, specifically that uranium salts emit rays that affect photographic plates.

   Físico francês

   • Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.
   • The unit of radioactivity, the becquerel, is named after him.
   • Becquerel's experiments with uranium salts laid the foundation for nuclear physics.

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   The SI unit of radioactivity, equal to one radioactive decay per second.

   Unidade de radioatividade

   • The sample had an activity of 500 becquerels.
   • Radiation levels are measured in becquerels per kilogram.
   • One becquerel is a very small amount of radioactivity.