Sentences with phrase «chain reaction which»

And when he does exactly that, it sets in motion a chain reaction which turns Neal and Pussy's world upside - down.

Mario is required to retrieve it by Hammering the tree branch at the easternmost point of Whammino Mountain to cause a chain reaction which flings the White Gate to an area Mario can reach, and backtracking to it.

I order chain reaction which is a very bright berry color and I love it.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

In simple terms, once Ice - 9 is introduced into any body of water, there will be a chain reaction which will leave the entire earth frozen.

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«They also help increase existing inventory through a chain - reaction effect: buyers of new homes often sell their existing one, which frees up a home for someone else, who in turn decides to buy it and sell their home, which then becomes a home for a first - time home buyer.»

... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

Critical mass is what occurs when enough parts of a whole reach a certain level, initiating a chain reaction in which all the other parts are automatically raised to that level as well.

Because of the chain - reaction of lawyers» maneuvering and mutual recriminations which follows such a decision, the action may be difficult to reverse.

The human mass is spiritually warmed and illumined by the iron grip of planetary compression; and the warming, whereby the rays of individual interaction expand, induces a further increase, in a kind of recoil, of the compression which was its cause... and so on, in a chain - reaction of increasing rapidity.

Some poverty - crippled persons respond to painful frustrations with anti-social behavior which starts a negative chain reaction with the law.

The No. 77 machine spun around the No. 11 car, which sparked a chain reaction behind.

At the first corner (a super-fast S - bend) Jody Scheckter and John Watson made contact, triggering a chain reaction of collisions which collected seven drivers - Scheckter, Watson, Mario Andretti, Patrick Tambay, Arturo Merzario, Didier Pironi, and Nelson Piquet.

The clinic works with the Bedford Research Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, which has developed a technique using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays to detect the HIV virus in semen.

A Freedom of Information request to the Food and Drug Administration in the US by the Cornucopia Institute found similar reactions logged in some babies fed on formula with Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (such as DHA and ARA), which it was suggested may be linked to the production process.

Jaundice can also make babies sleepy, and therefore less likely to wake to eat, which could set off a chain reaction of health concerns that lands your baby in the hospital, dehydrated and sick.

PCR means the Polymerase Chain Reaction HIV test, which tests for copies of HIV in blood and other body fluids including breastmilk.

Police consider the explosion to be a terrorist attack, which set off a chain reaction of panic in the arena.

David Laws, a Lib Dem MP and former Treasury minister, said the stand - off over reform could lead to a «chain reaction» which threatened the rest of the Coalition's programme.

The new test uses quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which amplifies fungal DNA to identify the species present and measure the extent of infection.

The new work is similar in spirit to the polymerase chain reaction, which amplifies virtually any snippet of DNA and attaches a fluorescent probe to the copies.

Those «chain reactions» are exactly what Menczer and his colleagues have been experiencing since the first Free Beacon article, which appeared a few weeks after Menczer went on a year's sabbatical.

Along with phosphorus accumulation came a global chemical chain reaction, which included other nutrients, that powered organisms to pump oxygen into the atmosphere and oceans.

Every time an incoming neutron bombards one of the uranium atoms, the atom splits in two, expelling energy and releasing more neutrons, which in turn collide with other atoms and establish a chain reaction.

The study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology establishes a metabolic chain reaction that starts with low inhibition, aka attention control, which leaves a person vulnerable to tempting or distracting information, objects, thoughts or activities.

The rods absorb light, which releases electrons and sets in motion a chain reaction that ends with the water in the beaker releasing its oxygen, as desired.

He later explained «chain reactions,» in which activated molecules initiate a series of independent reactions.

When this four - carbon molecule undergoes a chemical reaction to form long chains called polymers, styrene - butadiene rubber (SBR) is formed, which is used to make abrasive - resistant automobile tires.

In a paper published in Nature Immunology in 2011, Dr. Rostami and colleagues showed that the Th - 17 cells also produced another cytokine called GM - CSF, which created a chain reaction with another cell type ultimately increasing the GM - CSF levels in the brain of mouse models significantly.

A British company has squeezed the apparatus needed to perform the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which «amplifies» DNA, into a unit small enough to slot into an Apple Mac computer.

«Concentrated light drives the photochemical reaction, which generates high - energy intermediates and heat to drive thermochemical carbon - chain - forming reactions, thus producing hydrocarbons in a single - step process.»

Most available tests for the virus rely on a technology called reverse - transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT - PCR), which detects genetic sequences specific to Ebola in blood, serum and other bodily fluids.

It is also said to be «fertile,» because when a uranium 238 atom absorbs a neutron without splitting, it transmutes into plutonium 239, which, like uranium 235, is fissile and can sustain a chain reaction.

We have developed a method called the mutagenic chain reaction (MCR), which is based on the CRISPR / Cas9 genome - editing system for generating autocatalytic mutations, to produce homozygous loss - of - function mutations.

Instead, following exposure to chemotherapy, GSTO1 binds to a protein called the ryanodine receptor 1, or RYR1, that triggers the release of calcium, which causes a chain reaction that transforms ordinary breast cancer cells into cancer stem cells.

The trick is that the bromine and chlorine atoms in the halon molecule — the very ones that are so damaging to the stratospheric ozone — are also incredibly aggressive scavengers of hydrogen atoms, which are key to maintaining a combustion chain reaction.

It is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear chain reaction, which might very well be the most powerful force most of us will ever experience.

Many of the universe's heaviest elements form primarily through the r - process, a chain of reactions through which atomic nuclei climb the periodic table, swallowing up neutrons and decaying radioactively.

Current tests rely on the detection of Ebola genome by the real - time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique which is not suitable for on - site screening.

The molecule is split into two parts by blue light, creating radicals, which initiate a chain reaction: molecular compounds, which are already present in the filling, assemble into polymers, and the material hardens.

In other words, there is a division of labor among various types of cells within the sponges, which produce the self - organized biological structures through a chain of simple reactions.

The technique for making copies was the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which was used to replicate DNA for genetic studies or forensic analysis.

Pound for pound, nuclear explosives — which derive their power from runaway chain reactions in their radioactive fuel — carry about a million times the energy density of chemical explosives.

They amplified the RNA with the polymerase chain reaction, which provided enough to sequence parts of the virus's genetic code.

The first time someone asked me, I wondered: Which would be easier, explaining a difficult mathematical concept to a biologist, or trying to get a mathematician to grasp the rudiments of the polymerase chain reaction?

The US's emergency authorisation will allow the use of a kit that looks for flu genes using a polymerase chain reaction test, which has been made specific for H7N9.

That changes the patterns of stress in the ice, which ripple across the ice shelf and can cause nearby lakes to drain, setting up a chain reaction by which the entire lake - ridden portion of the ice shelf can splinter.

The virus had likely rippled through the food web, starving these invasive predators, which had been devouring native species along with rabbits — a chain reaction called a trophic cascade.

All tests detect viral RNA (ribonucleic acid) by means of the so - called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which is a standard method for detecting nucleic acids.

The compound 4 - ethyloctanal starts a hormonal chain reaction in the female's brain, which triggers ovulation, researchers report online today in Current Biology.