adjective
- containing or involving multiple curies of radioactive material
Usage: scientific; nuclear physics
Examples
- The multicurie source required special handling procedures.
- Scientists worked with multicurie amounts of cesium-137.
- The facility was licensed to handle multicurie quantities of radioactive isotopes.
- Multicurie sources are used in industrial radiography.
- The multicurie cobalt-60 source was stored in a lead container.