English-German translations for chain reaction

• Kettenreaktion die
  Eine solche Entwicklung könnte leicht zu einer Kettenreaktion führen. Such a development could easily become a chain reaction.
  Eine Kettenreaktion auszulösen, damit dies das beste Verwaltungswesen der Welt wird. To start a chain reaction so that this becomes the best bureaucracy in the world.
  Kennen wir wirklich das Ausmaß der destabilisierenden Kettenreaktion, die wir in dieser Region auslösen? Do we really know the extent of the destabilising chain reaction we are initiating in the region?

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