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Rapid antigen and the more-sensitive polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests will be available.

In May 2010, a trader in London using an algorithm to manipulate a futures market helped trigger a chain reaction that wiped 9 percent off the Dow Jones industrial average in minutes.

Each Pin has the potential to be re-pinned by other users and then discovered by their followers, creating a chain reaction of activity.

The test of choice has been a polymerase chain reaction test—which checks for the genetic material from SARS-CoV-2—from Curative, a California-based biotech startup, which turns around results in roughly 12 hours.

From Quartz

That initial test would use real-time polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, to examine sputum samples in search of unique genetic material from the virus.

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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