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SUPERCRITICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases
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critical (at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction)