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In a nuclear fissionchain reaction, neutrons are absorbed by large nuclei, and they undergo fission, part of the fission products are more neutrons, which are absorbed by more nuclei, which ... blah, blah, blah.

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A chain reaction in chemistry is a series of reactions in which one product of a reacting set is a reactant in the following set.

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Two types of initiation (the first step of a reaction) are:
- photochemical initiation
- thermal initiation

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