chain reaction

Paige left Saturday’s game early in the second quarter and never returned, causing a chain reaction down USC’s offensive line.

The disease starts with small lesions developing in the prefrontal cortex, along the brain stem, which sets off a chain reaction that slowly kills brain cells.

Despite their early contributions, notably the achievement of the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction in December 1942, the project’s center of gravity had shifted to Los Alamos.

In an opening flashback, we learn that a technician concocting a freakish T. rex littered a Snickers wrapper, causing a chain reaction that within two minutes resulted in the snacker becoming a snack.

There is no evidence that such a chain reaction will start in the first place, but even if it starts, it is unclear where such a process might lead.