- The
products of
nuclear fission, however, are on
average far more
radioactive than the
heavy elements which are
normally fissioned as fuel, and
remain so...
- Look up
fission in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Fission, a
splitting of
something into two or more parts, may
refer to:
Fission (biology), the division...
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Spontaneous fission (SF) is a form of
radioactive decay in
which a
heavy atomic nucleus splits into two or more
lighter nuclei. In
contrast to
induced fission, there...
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sometime before implosion. By the time
about 1% of the
fission fuel has
fissioned, the
temperature rises high
enough to
cause thermonuclear fusion, which...
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Fission, in biology, is the
division of a
single entity into two or more
parts and the
regeneration of
those parts to
separate entities resembling the...
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Mitochondrial fission is the
process by
which mitochondria divide or
segregate into two
separate mitochondrial organelles.
Mitochondrial fission is counteracted...
- Cold
fission or cold
nuclear fission is
defined as
involving fission events for
which fission fragments have such low
excitation energy that no neutrons...
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Ternary fission is a
comparatively rare (0.2 to 0.4% of events) type of
nuclear fission in
which three charged products are
produced rather than two....
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destructive force from
nuclear reactions,
either fission (
fission or
atomic bomb) or a
combination of
fission and
fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing...
- A star is a
luminous spheroid of
plasma held
together by self-gravity. The
nearest star to
Earth is the Sun. Many
other stars are
visible to the naked...
