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Meanings of exothermic reaction in English

Russian
экзотермические реакции
Portuguese
reação exotérmica
Spanish
reacción exotérmica
Catalan
reacció exotèrmica

Chemical reaction that releases energy by light or heat; opposite of an endothermic reaction.

экзотермические реакции
Usage of exothermic reaction in English
1
The heat that this produces can cause a cascading exothermic reaction.
The Name of the Wind
2
When they jut their stingers forwards and mix these substances there is a fierce exothermic reaction, a spray of heated fluid.
Children of Time
3
However, the second step is an exothermic reaction and involves hydrogen release, which makes this methodology expensive and difficult to scale up.
Pubmed
4
The exothermic reaction started by the Jamolean lance seared and burned around the Hub, until the sauropod collapsed into a smouldering heap.
Pack animals
5
The chemistry deck has a combustion chamber that runs assays by converting exothermic reactions into current and then measuring the output.
Cibola Burn
6
It was 10.45pm and they were sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by notes on exothermic reactions and quotes from Paradise Lost.
The Irish Times