DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
joliot-curie
/ʒɔ'ljoʊkj'Ri/ · ʒɔljoʊkjRi
Joliot-curie has 3 syllables: jo · liot-cu · rie.
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liot-cu
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noun. French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956).
noun. French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958).
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