HOW TO PRONOUNCE
becquerel
American English · Video pronunciation
Press play to hear how to pronounce becquerel.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does becquerel mean?
noun
- 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
proper noun
- A surname from French.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
IPA is not available for this entry. Listen to the video for pronunciation.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
Becquerel, on the other hand, considers it certain that in tropical climates the destruction of the forests is accompanied with an elevation of the mean temperature, and he thinks it highly probable that it has the same effect in the temperate zones.
M. Becquerel improved upon this process by sizing the paper with starch previous to the application of the bichromate of potash solution, which enabled him to convert the negative picture into a positive one, by the use of a solution of iodine, which combined with that portion of the starch on which the light had not acted.