English-Spanish translations for chain reaction

• reacción en cadena
  Pero una situación así puede provocar fácilmente una reacción en cadena. Such a development could easily become a chain reaction.
  Es el comienzo de una reacción en cadena de importantes consecuencias. It is the beginning of a chain reaction with important consequences.
  ¿Conocemos realmente el alcance de la desestabilizadora reacción en cadena que estamos iniciando en la región? 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