chain reaction
Noun
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Noun
chain reaction (plural chain reactions)
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms.
- The Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction.
- (idiomatic) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.
- ''The bombs all exploded in a chain reaction.
- French: réaction en chaîne
- German: Kettenreaktion
- Italian: reazione a catena
- Portuguese: reação em cadeia
- Russian: цепна́я реа́кция
- Spanish: reacción en cadena
- French: réaction en chaîne
- German: Kettenreaktion
- Italian: reazione a catena
- Portuguese: reação em cadeia
- Russian: цепна́я реа́кция
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