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If it were up to me, nuclear fusion and nuclear fission would be called “nuclear merging” and “nuclear splitting”. Or even “kernel merging” and “kernel splitting”?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff?pli=1
The tailbit of Poul Anderson's "Uncleftish Beholding":
In case people want a lot more of this: http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Headside
This is just begging to be a text in an alternative history novel.
Cute. When I first glanced at it, my 0-th reaction was "what the....???" - and then I saw the "235" Amazing how fast everything fell into place after that...
Kernel? That's a bit complicated for me. Can we call it 'core' instead?
A more runewise crosscarrying would be "the nut of the uncleft".
Doesn't that come from Latin cor ‘heart’? :-) (Just guessing.)
(Also, core can also refer to the nucleus plus the electrons other than those in the outermost shell, so it'd be ambiguous.)
"middle bit"?
Nope: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=kernel
Wrong word. Actually, yes.
Oops. I failed to read that properly.