Assertion: decay's neutron | /r/CapableOf | split the u-238 nuclei
Facets:
value: into smaller fragments
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The first reported nuclear fission occurred in 1939 when three German scientists, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman, bombarded uranium-235 atoms with slow-moving neutrons that split the U-238 nuclei into smaller fragments that consisted of several neutrons and elements near the middle of the periodic table.