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butnat (n) plutonium



>Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:11:51 +0000

>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>

>To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>

>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SIr'eq (noun)

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>Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, June 01, 2026


>Klingon word: SIr'eq

>Part of speech: noun

>Definition: unit of radioactive decay

>Source: qep'a' 29 [2022]

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>The request for this word was: "comparable to the Terran units the curie, the rutherford, and the becquerel".  

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>(qep'a' 2022):  Maltz didn't know how this compared to becquerel.

>

>SEE ALSO:

>

>woj          radiation (n)

>woj choHwI'      reactor (n)

>

>'otlh         photon (n)

>tuj 'otlh     infrared radiation

>tarngeb     uranium (n)

>

>woj tlhuD      be radioactive (v)

>tlhuD         emit [energy, radiation] (v)

>ragh          decay; rust, corrode (v)

>

>--

>Voragh

>

>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons