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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fission .
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Examples
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Used fuel is about 95% uranium-238 but it also contains up to 1% uranium-235 that has not fissioned, about 1% plutonium and 3% fission products, which are highly radioactive, with other transuranic elements formed in the reactor.
Nuclear fuel cycle 2009
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One pound of completely fissioned uranium has the fuel value of over 1500 tons of coal.
Uranium 2009
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The United Arab Republic Egypt + Syria lasted three years, then fissioned.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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The two different bombs they devised over the next 28 months, Little Boy and Fat Man, fissioned baseball-size cores of uranium or plutonium to deliver explosions equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT.
The Atomic Bomb 2008
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The Okmulgee apparently fissioned from the Hitchiti earlier.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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These events or stages constitute a cycle because they begin and end with the same event, such as the formation of a fertilized egg in sexually reproducing organisms, or the creation of a fissioned cell in clonally reproducing organisms.
The Biological Notion of Individual Wilson, Robert A. 2007
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During Acción Democrática's ten years in power, it has fissioned three times, in each instance losing some of its younger and more radical supporters and some momentum for reform.
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It is claimed that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository will be filled in ten years which assumes only uranium-235 isotopes of uranium will be fissioned and that concomitant long-lived uranium-238 isotopes with in-bred plutonium are waste.
A Good News/Bad News Day for the Nuclear Energy Industry - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Now, of course, SumnerRedstoneSumner Redstone's firm has fissioned into new Viacom and CBS, named for the Tiffany Network.
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So SumnerRedstoneSumner Redstone's firm fissioned into new Viacom and CBS, named for the Tiffany Network.
Faces Of The Week: Feb. 20-24, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week: Feb. 20-24, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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