About The Word Fissile
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Fissile
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What's The Definition Of Fissile?
[adj] capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood"
[adj] (physics) capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fissile: fissionable Related Terms | Find terms related to Fissile: alienable | breakable | brittle | brittle as glass | crackable | crisp | crispy | crumbly | crushable | delicate | dissoluble | dissolvable | divisible | fissionable | flimsy | fracturable | fragile | frail | frangible | friable | lacerable | scissile | separable | severable | shatterable | shattery | shivery | splintery | vulnerable See Also | Fissile In Webster's Dictionary \Fis"sile\, a. [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p. p. of
findere to split. See {Fissure}.]
Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of
the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage,
like crystals.
This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. --Sir I.
Newton.
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