English-Finnish translations for chain reaction

• ketjureaktio
  Tällaisesta kehityksestä voi helposti seurata ketjureaktio. Such a development could easily become a chain reaction.

Definition of chain reaction

• A in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms
• A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next

Examples

• The Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction.
• The bombs all exploded in a chain reaction

Related words

• polymerase chain reaction
• nuclear chain reaction
• quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
• real-time polymerase chain reaction