Little Curie...
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Eighteen small trucks called little Curies, fitted out with radiological equipment, were
produced during the 1st WW.
Marie and her 17-years-old-daughter Irene as a volunteers regularly went to the front.
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Beautiful Sklodowskite
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Copyright © Lou Perloff / Photo Atlas of Minerals
Sklodowskite
(H3O)2Mg(UO2)2(SiO4)2·4(H2O)
Hydrated Magnesium Uranyl Silicate Radioactivity greater than 70 Bq/gram |
BIG Curie,
small Becquerel
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1 curie = 37000000000 becquerel
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The Radium Standards Committee decided that the unit of radioactivity,
curie – chosen to honour Pierre - should be the amount of radon in
equilibrium with 10-8 grams of radium.
Marie did not accepted the proposal: she felt that the use of the name
curie for so infinitesimally small a quantity of anything was altogether
inappropriate. She insisted that the unit be based on one gram of
radium. It was then a "legendary" amount
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