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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
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- Subject: Re: Fission - Fusion... Fissure - Fusure?
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:50:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.185711.11843@sco.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.185711.11843@sco.com>, brianm@sco.com (Brian Moffet) writes:
- = Fission is the splitting of atoms, and Fusion is joining of 2 atoms
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- = A fissure is a split in the ground usually caused by an earthquake,
- = plate movement (without an earth quake?), or some other means.
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- = Is there a fusure? Perhaps the Himalayan mountains?
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- Sorry, we use the term "suture" as in "suture zone".
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- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
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