Below you will find example sentences with "chain reaction". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Chain Reaction in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: chain
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "chain reaction" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 26.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a chain reaction wreck that, a dangerous chain reaction, nuclear, polymerase and reactions stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with supply chain, value chain, chain management, value chain and chain management, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with chain reaction
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
And that’s how a nuclear chain reaction works. (9 words)
The Sanger chain termination method of sequencing uses a primer to start the chain reaction. (15 words)
Polymerase chain reaction main Researchers commonly replicate DNA in vitro using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). (16 words)
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still an emerging asset class, and part of the declines that were seen last year happened because crypto holders were selling off their assets for fear they will crash, resulting in a chain reaction effect. (40 words)
Oppenheimer and Robert Serber of the University of Illinois examined the problems of neutron diffusion—how neutrons moved in a nuclear chain reaction—and hydrodynamics —how the explosion produced by a chain reaction might behave. (35 words)
In theory, if in a neutron-driven chain reaction the number of secondary neutrons produced was greater than one, then each such reaction could trigger multiple additional reactions, producing an exponentially increasing number of reactions. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Molecular biology details Reverse transcriptase is commonly used in research to apply the polymerase chain reaction technique to RNA in a technique called reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
Nuclear fission differs importantly from other types of nuclear reactions, in that it can be amplified and sometimes controlled via a nuclear chain reaction (one type of general chain reaction ).
Oppenheimer and Robert Serber of the University of Illinois examined the problems of neutron diffusion—how neutrons moved in a nuclear chain reaction—and hydrodynamics —how the explosion produced by a chain reaction might behave.
Polymerase chain reaction main Researchers commonly replicate DNA in vitro using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) main Polymerase chain reaction is an extremely versatile technique for copying DNA.
A nuclear chain reaction occurs when one single nuclear reaction causes an average of one or more subsequent nuclear reactions, thus leading to the possibility of a self-propagating series of these reactions.
In theory, if in a neutron-driven chain reaction the number of secondary neutrons produced was greater than one, then each such reaction could trigger multiple additional reactions, producing an exponentially increasing number of reactions.
Szilárd, however, did not propose fission as the mechanism for his chain reaction, since the fission reaction was not yet discovered or even suspected.
This process requires a temperature of about 15 million K, which is higher than the core temperature of the Sun, but is less efficient than the Sun's proton-proton chain reaction fusion reaction.
When the brominated material burns, the flame retardant produces hydrobromic acid which interferes in the radical chain reaction of the oxidation reaction of the fire.
Nuclear chain reactions main A nuclear chain reaction was proposed by Leo Szilard in 1933, shortly after the neutron was discovered, yet more than five years before nuclear fission was first discovered.
The Sanger chain termination method of sequencing uses a primer to start the chain reaction.
A chain reaction wreck that began with a car running a red light ended with a CTA bus plowing into a Far South Side currency exchange and four people being injured, Chicago police said.
And that’s how a nuclear chain reaction works.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still an emerging asset class, and part of the declines that were seen last year happened because crypto holders were selling off their assets for fear they will crash, resulting in a chain reaction effect.
If that vast nexus of international contracts and opaque leverage starts to unravel, there are no obvious circuit breakers to stop a dangerous chain reaction.
In both cases, if you’d rather not wait, you can obtain a PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, test at a doctor’s office.
On 12 February 2023, one sample was confirmed positive for Marburg virus by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal.
So, try this combination with Acrid (it works on really any Survivor that kites a lot) to leave behind a trail of poisonous fiery death that will often start a chain reaction of explosive kills.
The second column has Auto-Loading for those not using Demolitionist to reload, Chain Reaction, and Cluster Bombs.