Usually means: Forcefully split or crack apart.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (break open)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, open.
verb:  To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.

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