supercritical
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- adjective
- /ˌsuːpərˈkrɪtɪkəl/
- Specialized
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supercrítico
- The reaction rate would never go high enough for a supercritical chain reaction like that which occurs in an A-bomb.
- supercritical mass
You said it went supercritical because it wasn't being cooled enough.
- You said it went supercritical because it wasn't being cooled enough.
Examples
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But like I said, good luck convincing someone in the US Let's build a whole fleet of these and the supercritical water reactor.
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I strongly doubt that this is going to work, seeing that so far supercritical wells all either collapsed or blew up.
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It'll go supercritical in a few hours, -
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Oh, you mean a supercritical fission explosion as though from a nuclear weapon?
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You said it went supercritical because it wasn't being cooled enough.
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Your implosion design simply uses a chemical high explosive to squeeze a subcritical piece of weapons-grade plutonium-239 until it's supercritical, thereby producing an atomic explosion.
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Topics covered include Berry phase, topologically protected zero modes, Klein tunneling, vacuum reconstruction near supercritical charges, and deformation-induced gauge fields.
Blog text (23) -
Our model is an argument for predicting that the vanishing of the high-field driven current in the supercritical percolation regime, cf. 18, is in fact discontinuous when taking into account the backbone only.
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In a supercritical state, uranium can sustain a rapid chain reaction that leads to increased energy output.
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For the research experiment, scientists intentionally created a supercritical mass of plutonium to study its explosive potential.
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Etymology
The word supercritical has two parts: super- meaning 'above' and critical meaning 'a point where things change', which you see in the phrase 'critical moment'. In nuclear talk, it means 'above the point where a chain reaction grows', so the reaction can increase very quickly.