Atomspaltung

German

Pronunciation
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  • Hyphenation: Atom‧spal‧tung

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. Synonym of Kernspaltung (nuclear fission)

Usage notes

After the atom bomb explosions at the end of the II. World War, the word Atom became a negative meaning. In order not to scare the population off this new way of energy production, energy producers used the word Kern derived from Atomkern instead.

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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