chain reaction

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Noun

chain reaction (plural chain reactions)

1. (physical chemistry) A chemical reaction where the products of the reaction influence the reactants of a following reaction, leading to positive feedback.

   polymerase chain reaction

2. (nuclear physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms.

   The Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction.

3. (figurative) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.
   • 2010, Robert W. Kolb, Lessons from the Financial Crisis‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     That is, systemic risk is the risk of a chain reaction of falling interconnected dominos.

Derived terms

• polymerase chain reaction

Translations

type of nuclear reaction

• Afrikaans: kettingreaksie
• Albanian: reaksion zinxhi m
• Amharic: የሰንሰለት ድርጊት (yäsänsälät dərgit)
• Arabic: تَفَاعُل مُتَسَلْسِل m (tafāʕul mutasalsil)
• Armenian: շղթայական ռեակցիա (hy) (šġtʻayakan ṙeakcʻia)
• Azerbaijani: zəncirvari reaksiya
• Basque: kate-erreakzio
• Belarusian: ланцуго́вая рэа́кцыя f (lancuhóvaja reákcyja)
• Bengali: ধারাবাহিক প্রক্রিয়া (dharabahik prokriẏa)
• Bulgarian: вери́жна реа́кция f (verížna reákcija)
• Catalan: reacció en cadena f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鏈式反應 / 链式反应 (zh) (liànshì fǎnyìng), 鏈反應 / 链反应 (liànfǎnyìng)

• Czech: řetězová reakce f
• Danish: kædereaktion c
• Dutch: kettingreactie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĉena reakcio
• Estonian: ahelreaktsioon (et)
• Faroese: ketureaktión f
• Finnish: ketjureaktio (fi)
• French: réaction en chaîne (fr) f
• Galician: reacción en cadea f
• Georgian: ჯაჭვური რეაქცია (ǯač̣vuri reakcia)
• German: Kettenreaktion (de) f
• Greek: αλυσιδωτή αντίδραση f (alysidotí antídrasi)
• Haitian Creole: reyaksyon an chenn
• Hebrew: תְּגוּבַת שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת (he) f (tguvát sharshéret)
• Hindi: शृंखला अभिक्रिया (śŕṅkhlā abhikriyā)
• Hungarian: láncreakció (hu)
• Indonesian: reaksi berantai
• Irish: imoibriú slabhrúil m
• Italian: reazione a catena f
• Japanese: 連鎖反応 (ja) (れんさはんのう, rensa hannō)
• Kannada: ಸರಣಿ ಕ್ರಿಯೆ (saraṇi kriye), ಸಾಲುಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ (kn) (sālupratikriye), ಸರಣಿಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ (kn) (saraṇipratikriye), ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯಾಶ್ರೇಣಿ (kn) (prakriyāśrēṇi)
• Kazakh: тізбекті реакция (tızbektı reaksiä)
• Korean: 연쇄반응(連鎖反應) (yeonswaebaneung)
• Latvian: ķēdes reakcija f
• Macedonian: верижна реакција f (verižna reakcija)
• Malay: tindak balas berantai, reaksi berantai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjedereaksjon m

  Nynorsk: kjedereaksjon m

• Persian: واکنش زنجیره‌ای
• Polish: reakcja łańcuchowa f
• Portuguese: reação em cadeia f
• Romanian: reacție în lanț (ro) f
• Russian: цепна́я реа́кция (ru) f (cepnája reákcija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ла̀нчана реа̀кција f

  Roman: lànčana reàkcija f

• Slovak: reťazová reakcia f
• Slovene: verižna reakcija f
• Spanish: reacción en cadena f
• Swedish: kedjereaktion (sv) c
• Tagalog: patanikalang tambisa
• Turkish: zincir reaksiyon, zincirleme reaksiyon
• Ukrainian: ланцюго́ва реа́кція f (lancjuhóva reákcija)
• Vietnamese: phản ứng dây chuyền
• Welsh: adwaith cadwyn m

series of events

• Belarusian: ланцуго́вая рэа́кцыя f (lancuhóvaja reákcyja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連鎖反應 / 连锁反应 (zh) (liánsuǒ fǎnyìng)

• Czech: řetězová reakce f
• Danish: kædereaktion c
• Dutch: kettingreactie (nl) f
• Faroese: ketureaktión f
• Finnish: ketjureaktio (fi)
• French: réaction en chaîne (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯაჭვური რეაქცია (ǯač̣vuri reakcia)
• German: Kettenreaktion (de) f
• Hungarian: láncreakció (hu)
• Italian: reazione a catena f
• Japanese: 連鎖反応 (ja) (れんさはんのう, rensa hannō)
• Malay: tindak balas berantai, reaksi berantai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjedereaksjon m

  Nynorsk: kjedereaksjon m

• Polish: reakcja łańcuchowa f
• Portuguese: reação em cadeia f
• Russian: цепна́я реа́кция (ru) f (cepnája reákcija)
• Slovak: reťazová reakcia
• Slovene: verižna reakcija f
• Swedish: kedjereaktion (sv) c
• Turkish: zincirleme tepki
• Ukrainian: ланцюго́ва реа́кція f (lancjuhóva reákcija)
• Vietnamese: phản ứng dây chuyền

Further reading

• chain reaction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia