spallation

IPA: spˈæɫˈeɪʃʌn

(engineering, materials science) Fragmentation due to stress or impact, or any pattern of surface damage created thereby.
(nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which a nucleus fragments into many nucleons.

Examples of "spallation" in Sentences

I didn't miss your comment on spallation, I ignored it.
A 1000 MeV beam will create 20-30 spallation neutrons per proton.
I.e. spallation being stated as fusion-based nucleosynthesis, when it is clearly not.
Surely you would have done something on spallation in C13/C14 production and in the basics of atomic-level structures in both nuclear or physical chemistry.
In this, up to ten percent of the neutrons could come from the spallation, though it would normally be less, even where actinide incineration is the main objective.
The capability of high-current, high-energy accelerators to produce neutrons by spallation from heavy elements has been used in the structural research of such materials.
Deuterium would be annihilated requiring the present abundance to have been produced at some later stage, such as spallation in shocks around the hypernovae of PopIII stars.
Properly dispersed in the mesosphere, 1,000 pounds of Carbon Deoxidizer is enough to remove approximately two billion tons of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere before the Carbon Deoxidizer molecules are themselves destroyed by cosmic ray spallation.
He actually believes that ALL nucleosynthesis (fusion and spallation) occurs in flares and the magnetic / electric fields either on the photosphere, below the surface of the photosphere, and in flares. (just ask and see the responses of his EU/PC mates sorley (avatared sometimes as Tim Erney) and Anaconda.)