Definitions
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- noun The act of splitting into two separate parts
- verb Present participle of
fission .
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Examples
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I would have been incinerated instantly by the 10-million-degree heat from fissioning plutonium atoms.
James M. Clash: New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero James M. Clash 2010
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This literature shows that symbiogenesis, interspecific fusions (hybridogenesis, gene transfers of various types, karyotypic fissioning, and other forms of acquisition of "foreign genomes" or epigenesis) are more important than the slow gradual accumulation of mutation or sexual mergers.
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I would have been incinerated instantly by the 10-million-degree heat from fissioning plutonium atoms.
James M. Clash: New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero James M. Clash 2010
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I would have been incinerated instantly by the 10-million-degree heat from fissioning plutonium atoms.
James M. Clash: New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero James M. Clash 2010
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The existence of those stars is not un-expected in the plasma cosmology model, due to fissioning/sputtering of the central plasmoid and/or created in pinches between/within inflowing filaments.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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If the hypothesis is correct, then it would allow us to create a self-sustaining cycle of fissioning uranium nuclei.
DBTL 8A: The Fire Next Time Johnny Pez 2009
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The fissioning of uranium is used as a source of heat in a nuclear power plant in the same way that the burning of coal, gas or oil is used as a source of heat in a fossil fuel power plant.
Nuclear fuel cycle 2009
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If the hypothesis is correct, then it would allow us to create a self-sustaining cycle of fissioning uranium nuclei.
Archive 2009-01-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Now for the energy that is released by the fissioning of a given amount of uranium (or thorium).
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Schematic representation of nuclear-power reaction involving the fissioning of uranium-235.
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