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FISSION (1)
FISSION (1)
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the
act
of cleaving or splitting into parts.
Nuclear fission
is the splitting of the
nucleus
of an
atom
into
nuclei
of lighter
atoms
, accompanied by the
release
of
energy
. The word comes from
Latin
fission
, meaning "a splitting, dividing."
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