Which type of radiation, discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896, led to the term 'radioactivity' being coined by Marie Curie?

The discovery of spontaneous radiation from uranium salts opened the door to modern nuclear physics. It earned Becquerel and the Curies the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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