fissile

Adjective

Meaning

Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fissionable splitting fragile brittle cleavage divisible separable crisp frail flimsy breakable brash frangible alienable cleavable
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Antonyms

nonfissile strong hard powerful solid substantial
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Phrases with the word

fissile plutonium fissile material fissile rock

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Examples

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. Bill Gates

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. John R. Bolton

fissile crystals Source: Internet

fissile wood Source: Internet

a fissionable nucleous Source: Internet

fissionable material Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fissidentaceous fissidentate fissigemmation fissile material fissile plutonium fissileness