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What is a curie and becquerel?

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Curie (Ci) and Becquerel (Bq) are both units in which activity is measured; activity being the time rate of change of the number of the radioactive nuclei.

Becquerel is the common/most widely used unit.

Curie is the SI unit.

1 Ci = 3.7 x 1010 Bq

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1 Ci = 3.7×1010 Bq

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