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It turns out that what was going was a thermal runaway, when a battery begins a chain reaction resulting in smoke and fire.
It's this "trigger a chain reaction" bit that gives me pause.
All it takes is one misplaced or mistimed trade, one small bit of misinformation or incorrect data, to set off a chain reaction.
A cold shutdown means a nuclear chain reaction can no longer take place.
More fell on top of her, causing a chain reaction that toppled hundreds.
Or the time he let a mouse loose among the female students to illustrate chain reaction.
It's botany on the surface, but it gets over enough chain-reaction theory to be good physics, if you read it right.
But they didn't know they had started a chain reaction that would affect their very lives.
If the pieces weren't brought together rapidly enough, the mass would fission in a slow chain reaction with no explosion.
Use what he developed and the chain-reaction would never end.
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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chain reaction, such as: chemical reaction, vicious circle, causal nexus, cause and effect, chain of circumstances, and concatenation of events.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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