fissile

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to be split.

2. 2

   Easily split along a grain.

   • This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.
3. 3

   Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.

   • North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn’t already and could be preparing Punggye-ri for a number of nuclear tests if the above analysis is correct.

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