chain reaction

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.