"becquerel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: [bɛkəˈɹɛɫ] [UK] Forms: becquerels [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|becquerel}} French becquerel, {{uder|en|fr|-}} French Head templates: {{en-noun}} becquerel (plural becquerels)
  1. 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 Wikipedia link: Henri Becquerel, becquerel Categories (topical): Radioactivity, SI units Derived forms: gigabecquerel, megabecquerel, terabecquerel Translations (unit of radioactive activity): becquerel [masculine] (Catalan), 貝克勒爾 (Chinese Mandarin), 贝克勒尔 (bèikèlè'ěr) (Chinese Mandarin), becquerel [masculine] (Czech), bekerelo (Esperanto), becquerel (Finnish), becquerel [masculine] (French), ბეკერელი (beḳereli) (Georgian), Becquerel [neuter] (German), μπεκερέλ (bekerél) (Greek), becquerel (Indonesian), becquerel (Malay), bekerel [masculine] (Polish), becquerel (Romanian), беккере́ль (bekkerélʹ) [masculine] (Russian), becquerelio [masculine] (Spanish), becquerel [common-gender] (Swedish), เบ็กเคอเรล (bêk-kəə-ren) (Thai)

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