'chain effect' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where one event leads to another, each event building on the prior one until a certain outcome or result is reached. For example: The chain effect of the bankruptcy announcement caused a sharp decline in the company's share price.
"It had a chain effect I didn't imagine.
Just as the pollutants had a chain effect, so too, apparently, did the cleaner air.
It seems natural to connect them, and this instinct is also in the spirit of the chain effect that we saw last year with the Arab Spring.
"It was a chain effect," he said, as his Achilles followed suit and then his calf "started cramping up".
If left unchallenged, the action of the White House would create a dangerous chain effect for any journalist who covers our officials," the statement said.
Many of the companies promised new business models, upended established industries such as transportation and triggered a chain effect on how people work and make a living.
Batuman, V., Sastrasinh, M. & Sastrasinh, S. Light chain effects on alanine and glucose uptake by renal brush border membranes.
His research focuses on assembly of clusters and extended arrays (2D and 3D) from nanoscale components of multiple types driven by DNA recognition, chain effects and geometrical factors.
Side chain effects on adsorption energy and equilibrium adsorption conformations were studied under different kind and number of branches.
"The basic problem is, if the failure of a 'too big to fail' entity would bring others tumbling down through chain effects, the government will be virtually forced to step in and do something," he said.
The present research investigated property-led redevelopment in Shenzhen and the induced chain effects of price-shadowing and indirect residential displacement.
