fashioning

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Hammerhead worms can lay eggs but also have the ability to reproduce through a process called asexual fissioning or fracturing, Raupp says.

From National Geographic • Aug. 4, 2023

Direct nuclear heating, tried in small pockets of Russia and Sweden, circulates water between a power plant and homes, transferring heat directly from fissioning uranium atoms to residences.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Coulomb repulsion between the two ends then succeeds in fissioning the nucleus, which pops like a water drop into two large pieces and a few neutrons.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Steam created by the still fissioning fuel floods into the torus and is cooled by the supplemental water there.

From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2012

The neutrons produced from the fissioning nucleus, known as secondary neutrons, “became the object of a worldwide search,” Luis Alvarez recalled.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik