chain reaction
Example Sentences
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Heat travels through a gas in a way similar to a billiards-style chain reaction.
From Science Daily
In 2025, researchers at the University of Louvain and Imperial College London clarified how this harmful chain reaction might be counteracted.
From Science Daily
This sets off a chain reaction where cytokines, or inflammatory mediators, wake the immune system—giving cancer patients getting immunotherapy an extra boost.
A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, scientists say.
From BBC
Because of the interconnectedness of an ecosystem, when any species is thrown off balance, the whole system is weakened and a chain reaction of failures is set in motion.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
