fragmentation

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In another, known as fragmentation, the explosion creates a disk of material around the collapsing core, and clumps in that disk eventually form a small neutron star, similar to how planets form.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

“The prospect of regime collapse or fragmentation or degradation even in Tehran, especially for these resistance groups, is existential, because this is their main source of power,” Mansour said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

“Nexstar’s influence is much diminished from its heyday, thanks to audience fragmentation, so it does need to consolidate to have any kind of future on its own terms,” TVNewsCheck editor Michael Depp told me.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

"Those pock marks are witness marks of a fragmentation munition," an analyst from McKenzie Intelligence said.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Grain by grain, molecule by molecule, carbohydrate fuel in the form of glucose is fed into this wheel; in its cyclic passage the fuel molecule undergoes fragmentation and a series of minute chemical changes.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson