- 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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results confirmed that
fission was
occurring and
hinted strongly that it was the
isotope uranium 235 in
particular that was
fissioning. The next day, the...
- megaton-range
hydrogen bombs,
about half of the
yield comes from the
final fissioning of
depleted uranium.
Virtually all
thermonuclear weapons deplo**** today...
- was to
speed up the
fissioning of the pit to
reduce the
minimum inertial confinement time. This
would allow the
efficient fission of the fuel with less...
- : 3 As a
result of the
large number of
decay pathways presented to a
fissioning nucleus,
there is a
large variation in the
final products.
Fragment m****es...
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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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fissile material into a
supercritical state and
beginning the
fission chain reaction. The
fissioning primary emits thermal X-rays,
which "reflect"
along the...
- particles.
Thermal neutrons have a far
higher cross section (probability) of
fissioning the
fissile nuclei uranium-235, plutonium-239, and plutonium-241, and...
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neutrons have a
better chance of
fissioning atoms. Some atoms,
notably uranium-238, do not
usually undergo fission when
struck by slow neutrons, but...
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based on
those isotope ratios almost two
billion years after it
stopped fissioning uranium. A key
factor that made the
reaction possible was that, at the...
