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Tweet n. 1. A series of events in which each induces or influences the next. 2. Physics A multistage nuclear reaction, especially a self-sustaining series of fissions in which the release of neutrons from the splitting of one atom leads to the splitting of others. 3. Chemistry A series of reactions in which one product of a reacting set is a reactant in the following set. |
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