On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Becquerel. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as physicist and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Becquerel meaning
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
Synonyms of Becquerel
Using Becquerel
- The main meaning on this page is: 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
- Useful related words include: henri becquerel, antoine henri becquerel, physicist.
- In the example corpus, becquerel often appears in combinations such as: henri becquerel, in becquerel, by becquerel.
Context around Becquerel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Becquerel
- In this selection, "becquerel" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, henri, edmond, 1900, measured, discovered and father stand out and add context to how "becquerel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in 1900 becquerel measured the and 1843 edmond becquerel had observed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "becquerel" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with becquerel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At just 19, Becquerel made this breakthrough while researching in his father's lab. (14 words)
This was the radiation that had been first detected by Becquerel from uranium salts. (14 words)
In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emitted rays that resembled X-rays in their penetrating power. (18 words)
Even so, just as Thompson had been beaten by Becquerel, so Curie was beaten in the race to tell of her discovery that thorium gives off rays in the same way as uranium; two months earlier, Gerhard Carl Schmidt had published his own finding in Berlin. (46 words)
He published his results in 1899. citation In 1900, Becquerel measured the mass-to-charge ratio ( m/e ) for beta particles by the method of J.J. Thomson used to study cathode rays and identify the electron. (37 words)
Biography Early life Becquerel was born in Paris into a rich family which produced four generations of scientists: Becquerel's grandfather ( Antoine César Becquerel ), father ( Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel ), and son ( Jean Becquerel ). (32 words)
Example sentences (16)
Biography Early life Becquerel was born in Paris into a rich family which produced four generations of scientists: Becquerel's grandfather ( Antoine César Becquerel ), father ( Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel ), and son ( Jean Becquerel ).
At just 19, Becquerel made this breakthrough while researching in his father's lab.
Becquerel's earliest works centered on the subject of his doctoral thesis: the plane polarization of light, with the phenomenon of phosphorescence and absorption of light by crystals.
Even so, just as Thompson had been beaten by Becquerel, so Curie was beaten in the race to tell of her discovery that thorium gives off rays in the same way as uranium; two months earlier, Gerhard Carl Schmidt had published his own finding in Berlin.
Henri Becquerel himself proved that beta rays are fast electrons, while Rutherford and Thomas Royds proved in 1909 that alpha particles are ionized helium.
He published his results in 1899. citation In 1900, Becquerel measured the mass-to-charge ratio ( m/e ) for beta particles by the method of J.J. Thomson used to study cathode rays and identify the electron.
Honors and awards Image of Becquerel's photographic plate which has been fogged by exposure to radiation from a uranium salt.
In 1868, Edmond Becquerel published a book, La lumière: ses causes et ses effets (Light: Its causes and its effects).
In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emitted rays that resembled X-rays in their penetrating power.
In 1896, Henri Becquerel found that rays emanating from certain minerals penetrated black paper and caused fogging of an unexposed photographic plate.
In 1900, Becquerel measured the mass-to-charge ratio ( m/e ) for beta particles by the method of J.J. Thomson used to study cathode rays and identify the electron.
In 1903, Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Skłodowska-Curie "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity".
In a footnote on page 473, Stokes acknowledges that in 1843, Edmond Becquerel had observed that quinine acid sulfate strongly absorbs ultraviolet radiation (i.
Robert Millikan While studying naturally fluorescing minerals in 1896, the French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered that they emitted radiation without any exposure to an external energy source.
The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Becquerel for his discovery and to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie for their subsequent research into radioactivity.
This was the radiation that had been first detected by Becquerel from uranium salts.
Common combinations with becquerel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- henri becquerel 4×
- in becquerel 3×
- by becquerel 2×
- becquerel measured 2×
- edmond becquerel 2×
- becquerel discovered 2×