Fission

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4865. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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The breaking apart of a body into smaller fragments. In the context of nuclear physics the term, nuclear fission, refers to the splitting of a heavy atomic nucleus into two or more lighter nuclei with the release of energy. The mass of the nucleus prior to fission is greater than the combined masses of the fragments, the difference in mass, Δm, being released as a quantity of energy, ΔE (ΔE=Δmc2,...

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