chain reaction

Example Sentences

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Each magnetic moment tilts slightly and passes its motion to the next, creating a chain reaction.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Back in Sriracha, another Thai boat owner, 61-year-old Jariya Charuenpunson, fears a chain reaction across the industry if fishers are forced to remain in port for an extended period.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Uranium is the primary fuel used in nuclear reactors, but it needs to be enriched by separating the more radioactive particles that create a chain reaction to release energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Because leukotrienes trigger a chain reaction that tightens the airways, drugs were developed to block their effects and ease breathing.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

The chain reaction of discoveries—linkage, crossing over, the linearity of genetic maps, the distance between genes—burst forth with such ferocity that it seemed, at times, that genetics was not born but zippered into existence.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee