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products of
about 3 to 2, for
common fissile isotopes. Most
fissions are
binary fissions (producing two
charged fragments), but
occasionally (2 to 4 times...
- 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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destructive force from
nuclear reactions,
either fission (
fission or
atomic bomb) or a
combination of
fission and
fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing...
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fission rate of the
system and is
quantified as the
ratio of the
total number of
fissions caused by dela****
neutrons to the
total number of
fissions in...
- when a
highly enriched uranium fuel is used.
Plutonium fissions will
dominate the U-235
fissions in some reactors,
especially after the
initial loading...
- neutron-induced
fission.
Quaternary fission, at 1 per 10
million fissions, is also
known (see below). The most
common nuclear fission process is "binary
fission." It...
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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...
- electrons. The
dominant contribution of
fission neutrons to the bomb's
power is the
initiation of
subsequent fissions. Over half of the
neutrons escape the...
- 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...
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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...
