Sentence examples for ignite a reaction from inspiring English sources

Why, even Pat Buchanan wrote, "the public mind has been so poisoned that an acquittal of George Zimmerman could ignite a reaction similar" to the Rodney King riots.

Almost immediately, the metabolites, in combination (but not individually) ignited a reaction that resulted in increased expression of a gene involved in cholesterol and blood-sugar regulation.

The move is widely expected to ignite a bitter reaction from his party's followers.

Perhaps this is because storms, hurricanes and tornadoes ignite a primal reaction, whereas climate change requires an intellectual one.

In 1952 American scientists used a fission explosion to ignite a fusion reaction in which isotopes of hydrogen combined thermally into heavier helium nuclei.

But European leaders are dead set against such a "credit event," which could ignite a chain reaction with unpredictable and potentially catastrophic results for the world financial system.

An acquittal or a light sentence could ignite a furious reaction on the streets from Egyptians already disappointed that their "revolution" has yet to bring much real change.

The basic idea for a hydrogen bomb had been around for several years: You set off a regular atomic bomb, one that works by the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei like Uranium-235 or Plutonium, which generates the millions of degrees (the "thermo" part of "thermonuclear") needed to ignite a fusion reaction.

In case of infection, pathogens (e.g., viral peptides) can bind to HLA instead of the self-peptides and ignite an immune reaction.

A bus-burning here in October 2006 was considered an isolated incident and failed to ignite a local chain reaction.

One option is that these gas giants coalesce from interstellar gas in the same way that stars form – gravitational attraction brings the material together but there isn't quite enough material in the cloud to ignite a nuclear fusion reaction at the core and so the gas cloud never begins to shine.