Nuclear Physics terms starting with C

4 terms

1. Contamination To make impure, infected, corrupt, etc, by contact with or addition of something; to pollute something.
2. COW A radioisotope generator system.
3. curie A unit of radioactivity, equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 3.7 x 1010 disintegrations per second.
4. Curie (Ci) The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material.