Talk:Curie

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Contents 1 contradiction: Pierre Curie 2 Repeating Decimal 3 Megacurie, etc 4 Orders of Magnitude 5 curie out of date 6 What is considered low, normal, high? 7 Chem or Phys? 8 Curie - Marie or Pierre? 9 Curie (Measurment)

[edit] contradiction: Pierre Curie

Changing the name of Curie to "Curie (unit)" or "Curie (Measurement)" would fix this little problem in Wikipedia's mislabel of this. Kenji000 (talk) 13:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC) ya who cares about this stuff i like changing evrrything......................................................... lol hahahahahah

[edit] Repeating Decimal

Is the conversion between Ci and Bq defined as exactly 37 billion? If not, then the inverse conversion should certainly not be exact, as indicated by the repeating decimal. Even if it is exact, I feel like it draws attention undue attention and should be removed. Unless someone can argue otherwise, I'll change it.

BailesB 03:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Megacurie, etc

Should megacurie, kilocurie, etc. have their own pages? I imagine not, unless they have specific examples of levels of each. Otherwise they could be placed on this page, or maybe create an Orders of Magnitude (Radiation) page? Probably not necessary, though. I am retyping some larger orders of magnitude to here for now. (I guess I could have made redirects. Oh well.) Omegatron 19:54, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)why would we be able to change things like weird!!! i could change everything on wikipedia then yeah!!!!!!1

[edit] Orders of Magnitude

To find Orders of Magnitude, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico

[edit] curie out of date

I currently work in nuclear power and would say that the curie is far from being replaced by any other unit. The curie is still the standard for measure of quantity of radioactive material throughout the US commercial and Naval nuclear power programs.

Well. Also here in the middle of Europe the curie is the standard by which we measure specific radioactivity of substances. -> if both in USA and EU, in both nuclear power and biology Curie would be far from replacement in daily life, so where else it is not? Reo ^ON | +++ 16:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What is considered low, normal, high?

What exactly is a low, normal and high level of radiation measured in curie? What is a dangerous level for humans? I saw in the series Heroes they measured 1800 Curie and said "let's get out of here". Is that realistic, or would they be dead already?

Blonkm 02:16, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

That's actually reasonably accurate. An 1800 Ci Co-60 source at 1 meter would lead to an exposure of a few tens of rem per minute, which means acute symptoms (nausea, vomiting) within a couple of minutes, and fatal exposures at around 10 minutes (athough the symptoms would have a latency period and may take hours to days to appear).Mjamja (talk) 17:32, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chem or Phys?

Shouldn't this be a nuclear physics article, instead of a chemistry article?

[edit] Curie - Marie or Pierre?

This article states that the curie was named after Marie Curie, however, Pierre Curie states that the curie was named after Pierre. 71.238.70.220 (talk) 00:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

It was named in honour of Marie, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica Alastairward (talk) 22:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it was deliberately left ambiguous: How the curie came to be. Hqb (talk) 07:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Curie (Measurment)

I say that megacurie, kilocurie, etc. should have their own pages since kilogram and other measurments have their own pages. Since this is true, why shouldn't the curie measurments have their own pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.85.252.151 (talk) 21:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Objective bystander logic: No, because kilograms and kilometers (and millimeters and nanometers etc.) have distinct relevancies. If an article about megacuries is simply "1 million curie" its not worth it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.212.110.120 (talk) 01:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

A kilogram is the base unit in the MKS SI system and so has it's own page. A kilometre is the standard 'everyday' measurement of long distances so it has it's own page, even though it is not a base MKS SI unit - the metre is. In the old (but still used) system from which the Curie comes from, a megacurie or kilocurie is rarely used, unless you are talking about the fallout from a large nuclear weapon. Even a Ci is a big unit and in 'normal' use - in medicine, industry, university etc - then the μCi or mCi (microcurie or millicurie) are usually used. Suzy A —Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Anonstrom (talk • contribs) 03:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)