fissility

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English

Etymology

From fissile +‎ -ity.

Noun

fissility (usually uncountable, plural fissilities)

  1. The quality of being fissile (in any sense).
  2. (geology) The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.

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