No. 5,869 in French

curie

"Curie" refers to a unit of radioactivity or can denote Marie Curie, the famous physicist and chemist.

In a sentence

Marie Curie a découvert le radium.
Marie Curie discovered radium.
Proper noun: 'Curie' refers to the scientist Marie Curie, a specific individual.
Un curie est une unité de mesure de la radioactivité.
A curie is a unit of measurement for radioactivity.
Common noun: 'curie' refers to the unit used in science to measure radioactivity.
Le village accueillait un vieux curé nommé Curie.
The village hosted an old priest named Curie.
Name of a person: 'Curie' is used as a proper noun for the name of a priest.

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