different between radioactive vs becquerel

English

Alternative forms

• radio-active (dated)

Etymology

Coined by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie in 1898 as French radio-actif, equivalent to English radio- +? active.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?dio??akt?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??e?dio??ækt?v/
• Rhymes: -ækt?v

Adjective

radioactive (comparative more radioactive, superlative most radioactive)

1. Exhibiting radioactivity.
2. (figuratively, rare) Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.

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Derived terms

• nonradioactive
• radioactively

Translations

Noun

radioactive (plural radioactives)

1. Any radioactive substance.
   • 2016, Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson, On to the Asteroid

     Any ship nearby will receive a lethal dose of gamma rays, neutrons, and other radioactives.

Further reading

• “radioactive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• radioactive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Adjective

radioactive

1. feminine singular of radioactif

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French becquerel. Named after the French physicist Henri Becquerel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [b?k?????]

Noun

becquerel (plural becquerels)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. Symbol: Bq

Translations

Catalan

Noun

becquerel m (plural becquerels)

1. becquerel (derived unit of radioactive activity)

Czech

Noun

becquerel m

1. becquerel (derived unit of radioactive activity)

Further reading

• becquerel in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Noun

becquerel

1. becquerel

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.k??l/

Noun

becquerel m (plural becquerels)

1. becquerel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after French physicist A. H. Becquerel (1857–1927).

Noun

becquerel m (definite singular becquerelen, indefinite plural becquerel, definite plural becquerelane)

1. becquerel (the derived unit of radioactive activity; the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second). Symbol: Bq

References

• “becquerel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.