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chain reaction
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Chain Reaction is a studio album by Australian singer John Farnham . The album was released in Australia on 24 September 1990. Chain Reaction was the highest selling album in Australia in 1990 and debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts in September and was certified ...
WordNet
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n. a series of chemical reactions in which the product of one is a reactant in the next a self-sustaining nuclear reaction; a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitting of others
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Interstate 35 was closed following a chain reaction crash that involved 93 vehicles. ▪ The atom splits, starting a nuclear chain reaction . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bombs in the magazine detonate in chain reaction in a split ...
Usage examples of chain reaction.
He told me there would be this big event, this precipitating event, which would set off a chain reaction that would set America back on course.
Containment fields ruptured, matter met antimatter, and a deadly chain reaction tore through every warhead aboard the targeted ships.
He knew that all you had to do was stimulate atoms to get a chain reaction going.
It's sort of a chain reaction, with me on the end and nobody to pass it along to.
I should be able to get a high positive 'k' factor on the chain reaction-if it works at all.
It was all the human race needed -- a chance to use what could turn into a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Something had attacked the shop, powerful enough to set off a chain reaction in the protec.