prompt reaction

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• Prompt critical — In nuclear engineering, an assembly is prompt critical if for each nuclear fission event, one or more of the immediate or prompt neutrons released causes an additional fission event. This causes a rapidly exponential increase in the number of… …   Wikipedia

• Réaction en chaîne (nucléaire) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Réaction en chaîne. Schéma d une réaction en chaîne de fission nucléaire 1. Un atome d uranium 235 absorbe un neutron …   Wikipédia en Français

• Prompt neutron — In nuclear engineering, a prompt neutron is a neutron immediately emitted by a nuclear fission event, as opposed to a delayed neutron decay which can occur within the same context, emitted by one of the fission products anytime from a few… …   Wikipedia

• prompt — ▪ I. prompt prompt 2 noun [countable] COMPUTING a sign on a computer screen which shows that the computer has finished one operation and is ready to begin the next: • When you see the C prompt, type WP .   [m0] ▪ II. prompt prompt 1 [prɒmpt ǁ… …   Financial and business terms

• prompt — prompt1 [prɔmpt US pra:mpt] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Medieval Latin; Origin: promptare, from Latin promptus; PROMPT2] 1.) [T] to make someone decide to do something prompt sb to do sth ▪ What prompted you to buy that suit? 2.) [T] to make people say …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• prompt — 1 verb 1 (T) to make someone decide to do something, especially something that they had been thinking of doing: prompt sb to do sth: Her situation prompted me to do something about getting a new job. 2 to make people say or do something as a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• prompt — 1. verb 1) curiosity prompted him to look Syn: induce, make, move, motivate, lead, dispose, persuade, incline, encourage, stimulate, prod, impel, spur on, inspire Ant …   Thesaurus of popular words

• prompt — 1. verb 1) curiosity prompted him to look Syn: induce, make, move, motivate, lead, dispose, persuade, incline, encourage, stimulate, prod, impel, spur on, inspire 2) the statement prompted a hostile reaction …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• immediate reaction — prompt response, instantaneous response …   English contemporary dictionary

• Nuclear chain reaction — A possible nuclear fission chain reaction. 1. A uranium 235 atom absorbs a neutron, and fissions into two new atoms (fission fragments), releasing three new neutrons and a large amount of binding energy. 2. One of those neutrons is absorbed by an …   Wikipedia

• Chain reaction — This article is about chain reactions in chemistry and physics. For other uses, see Chain reaction (disambiguation). A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by product causes additional reactions to take place. In… …   Wikipedia