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Show A Curie of Radium. Mine. Curie's modest autobiography omits mention of one single honor that more thun anything else will help make her name immortal. The official scientific scien-tific designation of the unit of radioactivity radioac-tivity Is named In her honor the "curie," and the degree of radioactivity is expressed ex-pressed in millicurles, centauries and so on up the metric system scale. In selecting se-lecting Mine. Curie's name scientific bodies have followed the well-established custom that accounts for the Introduction In-troduction of such words as ohm, watt, amperes, etc., into our language all of them the names of Inventors or discoverers. dis-coverers. Delineator. |