The term curie (Ci) represents Question 10 options: A) a measurement of the number of radioactive disintegrations occurring each second in a sample. B) the acronym for radiation-absorbed-dose; it is the amount of radiation absorbed per gram of body tissue. C) the international unit of radiation quantity for gamma radiation; but the unit also is used to measure alpha and beta radiation. D) one one-thousandth of a rem; a commonly encountered fraction of the rem