Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
fissile
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
fissionable, fissile
(adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission; “a fissionable nucleous”; “fissionable material”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fissile (comparative more fissile, superlative most fissile)
Able to be split
(geology) Easily split along a grain
(physics) Capable of undergoing nuclear fission, especially by collision with a thermal neutron
Source: Wiktionary
Fis"sile, a. Etym: [L. fissilis, fr. fissus, p.p. of findere to split. See Fissure.]
Definition: Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 April 2025
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.