Atomspaltung

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Atomspaltung

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Hyphenation: Atom‧spal‧tung

Noun edit

Atomspaltung f (genitive Atomspaltung, no plural)

Synonym of Kernspaltung (nuclear fission)

Usage notes edit

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 edit

Declension of Atomspaltung [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Atomspaltung
genitive	einer	der	Atomspaltung
dative	einer	der	Atomspaltung
accusative	eine	die	Atomspaltung