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Fissionable   /fˈɪʃənəbəl/   Listen
Fissionable

adjective
1.
Capable of undergoing nuclear fission.  Synonym: fissile.  "Fissionable material"





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"Fissionable" Quotes from Famous Books



... mere old-wives' terror tale; some say that the deaths were caused by fear of atomic energy, when it was still unfamiliar; others contend that the fundamental nature of atomic energy has altered by the degeneration of the fissionable matter. For my own part, I'm not enough of a scientist to ...
— Flight From Tomorrow • Henry Beam Piper
... of those things?" The importance of the job was becoming increasingly clear to him. Nuclear explosives were not used without good reason. The fissionable material was too ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage


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