millicurie
- n a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie
- An almost invisible speck of radioactive carbona millicurie became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research.
- Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000).
- The needle a powerful 50 millicurie source, 500,000 times what can be safely left in the body for a lifetimehad broken off in Joke's nasopharynx.