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nuclear reaction

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables
nu-cle-ar re-ac-tion
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.

Inflected Forms

nuclear reactions (plural)

Questions

What does nuclear reaction mean?
A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.

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