fissility
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)
- The quality of being fissile (in any sense).
- (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “fissility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.