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What is a chain reaction?

What is a chain reaction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms.
  2. (idiomatic) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.
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Polymerase chain reaction products were examined by agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining.
Presence of oncogenic HPV types 16 and 18 DNA was done by polymerase chain reaction.
Genotypes were obtained by automated sizing of fluorescently tagged polymerase chain reaction amplification products.
It can protect the polyunsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes from the autocatalytic chain reaction of lipid peroxidation.
When high concentrations of these pollutants accumulate and interact with sunlight, a chain reaction occurs.
We analyzed gene mutations in patients who died of thrombotic events, using multiplex allele-specific polymerase chain reaction amplification.

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