fissioning
Speech parts
1. fissioning - Noun
2. fissioning - Verb
Meaning
fissioning (plural fissionings)
The act of splitting into two separate parts
fissioning
present participle of fission
Examples
Crypts of the colon can reproduce by fission, as seen in panel C, where a crypt is fissioning to form two crypts, and in panel B where at least one crypt appears to be fissioning.
The fissioning of elements like uranium-235 and plutonium-239 is caused by their absorption of neutrons.
In large, megaton-range hydrogen bombs, about half of the yield comes from the final fissioning of depleted uranium.
Panel C shows, on the left side, a crypt fissioning into two crypts.
Subsequent studies in early 1939 (one of them by Szilárd and Fermi) revealed that several neutrons were also released during the fissioning, making available the opportunity for the nuclear chain reaction that Szilárd had envisioned six years previously.
The purpose was to separate the various fission products produced by the bombardment by exploiting the enormous force that the fragments gain from their mutual electrical repulsion after fissioning.