Becquerel

How To Use Becquerel In A Sentence

• The becquerel is a unit of radioactivity and corresponds to one radioactive disintegration per second.
• This box, designed to monitor gamma radiation, in itself contained enough strontium 90 to emit 500,000 becquerels of radioactivity.
• For the discovery and investigation of this radiation, called uranic or Becquerel rays, the Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 - Presentation Speech
• Shortly after Antoine Becquerel and others developed the electrometer, John Mothée Gaugain made the first precise measurements of pyroelectric charges in 1859.
• Pierre and Marie Curie called Becquerel's radiation radioactivity.
• Swabs taken from the tanks now show monthly levels of 70 becquerels of caesium 137.
• In September officials in Yokohama said they had detected 40,200 becquerels of radioactive caesium per kilogramme of sediment collected from a roadside ditch. Radiation in Tokyo not linked to Fukushima
• I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard.
• Becquerel in Paris wondered whether naturally fluorescent or phosphorescent substances might also emit X-rays.
• Sir Humphry Davy, Humboldt, Wollaston and Becquerel occupied themselves with the theoretical side of the question; but it was not till after 1845 that practical electroculture was undertaken. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892