Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

picocurie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pic-ocurie
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The unit of radioactivity equal to 10⁻¹² curie: symbol pCi.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From pico- + curie.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pico

Inflected Forms

picocuries (plural)

Questions

What does picocurie mean?: The unit of radioactivity equal to 10⁻¹² curie: symbol pCi.
Where does picocurie come from?: From pico- + curie.

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