picocurie

English

Etymology

From pico- +‎ curie.

Noun

picocurie (plural picocuries)

1. The unit of radioactivity equal to 10^-12 curies: symbol pCi.
   • 2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     Payne, then on loan to the tribal government, agreed to help a National Park Service ranger work on his water sampling technique. They tested 48 water sources around a national monument near Cameron. What they found appalled them. Uranium levels in the water at Cameron were as high as 139 picocuries per liter in wells and up to 4,024 in abandoned pits like the ones where Lois Neztsosie watered her sheep and filled her drinking bottles.

French

Noun

picocurie m (plural picocuries)

1. picocurie

Further reading

• “picocurie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French picocurie.

Noun

picocurie m (plural picocurii)

1. picocurie

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	picocurie	picocurieul		picocurii	picocuriii
genitive-dative	picocurie	picocurieului		picocurii	picocuriilor
vocative	picocurieule			picocuriilor