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PRONUNCIATION OF PHOTOFISSION

photofission  [ˌfəʊtəʊˈfɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHOTOFISSION

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Photofission is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PHOTOFISSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Photofission

Photofission is a process in which a nucleus, after absorbing a gamma ray, undergoes nuclear fission. Very high energy gamma rays have been shown to induce fission in elements as light as tin Gamma radiation of more modest energies, in the low tens of MeV, can induce fission in traditionally fissile elements like uranium, plutonium, and neptunium. Experiments have been conducted with much higher energy gamma rays, finding that the photofission cross section doesn't vary much within ranges in the low GeV range...

Definition of photofission in the English dictionary

The definition of photofission in the dictionary is the simultaneous release of energy and splitting of a large nucleus into smaller ones, caused by the absorption of a high energy photon.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHOTOFISSION


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recognition
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translation
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHOTOFISSION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PHOTOFISSION

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Synonyms and antonyms of photofission in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «photofission» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHOTOFISSION

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光致裂变
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photofission
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photofission
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photofission
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photofission
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Translator English - Russian

фотоделение
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photofission
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photofission
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photofission
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Pemfailan
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Translator English - German

Photospaltung
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Translator English - Japanese

光核分裂
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photofission
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Photofission
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photofission
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photofission
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Translator English - Marathi

फोटोफिशन
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Translator English - Turkish

fotofizyon
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Translator English - Italian

photofission
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photofission
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Translator English - Ukrainian

фотоподілу
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photofission
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Trends of use of photofission

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOFISSION»

The term «photofission» is used very little and occupies the 186.797 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOFISSION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about photofission

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHOTOFISSION»

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Relative Photofission Cross Sections of Several Fissionable ...
The photofission excitation curve of U(238) up to 21 Mev has been measured.
John McElhinney, William E. Ogle, 1950
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Delayed Neutron Group Parameters from Photofission
This dissertation presents a theoretical basis and the experimental procedure for the determination of delayed neutron group parameters resulting from photofission for three fissionable materials (238U, 232Th, and 239Pu).
Mathew Thomas Kinlaw, 2007
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Reactor Dosimetry: Methods, Applications, and Standardization
"A Review of Photofission Measurements," Reactor Dosimetry: Methods, Applications, and Standardization, ASTM STP 1001, Harry Farrar IV and E. P. Lippincott, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials. Philadelphia, 1989, pp.
Harry Farrar, E. P. Lippincott, 1989
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Neutron cross sections and technology: proceedings of a ...
The photofission cross section of the fuel (especially Pu^39) ±s relatively large and strongly energy dependent in the gamma ray energy range of 6-10 MeV, a range in which there is a copious supply of gamma rays arising from fission and ...
David T. Goldman, 1968
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The Nuclear Fission Process
In photofission experiments this will show up as a shelf in the yield versus excitation energy curve, called an isomeric shelf. In the isomeric shelf region the decrease in the isomeric cross section is in first order only due to the decrease of TA.
Cyriel Wagemans, 1991
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Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices, and Prospects
If fission then occurs, it is called photofission, to distinguish the process from the more common neutron-induced fission. It was found early that the thresholds for photofission in uranium and thorium isotopes lie in the range from 5.1 to 5.4 MeV  ...
David Bodansky, 2007
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Photofission in Actinide Targets
Fission fragment angular distribution of even-even and odd-mass targets induced by the bremsstrahlung radiation near fission barrier is one of the promising areas to obtain information on the effect of target ground state spin on transition ...
Rajprakash H G, 2011
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Physics and Chemistry of Fission: Proceedings of the XVIIIth ...
G.M. Gurevich, V.G. Nedorezov Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow G.Ya. Kezerashvili Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk Until now the photofission of nuclei has been studied mainly by means of bremsstrahlung photons having the ...
H. Märten, Dieter Seeliger, 1992
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Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade: P(ND)^2 : ...
95 (1954). E. Jacobs, et al., ”Product yields for the photofission of 238U with 12-, 15-, 20-, 30-, and 70-MeV Bremsstrahlung”, Phys. Rev. C 19 (1979) 422. M. Ya. Kondratko et al., ”Yields of the photofission of 237Np”, Atomnaya Energiya, Vol.
E. Bauge, 2006
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Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology: Accelerator ...
Accelerator applications in industry and the environment Alex Chao, Weiren Chou. Fig. 14. Sketch of the photofission process showing the various prompt and delayed emitted particles. Very large energies are I I "W'IPr, F mill-Fire ' ' 1 :llr “.1”;.
Alex Chao, Weiren Chou, 2012

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHOTOFISSION»

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Pa. Property Investor Seeks New Home for Historical Westinghouse …
... precise observations of the reactions than existed at the time, and experiments there in 1940 lead to the discovery of uranium photofission. «Nuclear Street - Nuclear Power Portal, Jan 13»
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New accelerator to boost isotope production
However, while he believes that the "photofission" process could meet a small part of Canada's demand for molybdenum-99, he does not think ... «physicsworld.com, Jun 10»
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Accelerating medical isotope production
This photofission process produces almost exactly the same fraction of molybdenum-99 as the neutron-induced fission of uranium-235 does. «physicsworld.com, Nov 08»

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