{
  "id": "chain-reaction.stacked",
  "term": "chain reaction",
  "sense": "stacked",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A single cause sets a parameter beyond a wall, which enables another cause to act where it could not before, and so on.",
  "folk_gloss": "A sequence of events where one event triggers the next.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "cause.reason",
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "interaction.process",
      "drift.aimless"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "chain reaction",
      "stacked dependency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2008 financial crisis, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a cascade of credit freezes across global banks.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Chernobyl reactor's power surge caused a steam explosion that ruptured containment, exposing the core and releasing radiation.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Prion misfolding in mad cow disease propagates as each distorted protein induces errors in neighboring healthy proteins.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "chain reaction"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — stacked dependency"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chain-reaction.stacked"
}