critical mass

How To Use critical mass In A Sentence

• As the struggle between the exotic island's warring factions reaches critical mass, further questions emerge from the tangled undergrowth. Times, Sunday Times
• My answer was the Black Death chopped population way down so that not until Galileo's generation was there as many Europeans as in Oresme's time and, if brilliant scientific minds are a constant proportion of the whole, never until then was there a "critical mass" of scientific thinkers. March 25th, 2009
• When the fuse is triggered, a conventional explosion causes the second subcritical mass to be propelled at a high velocity into the first subcritical mass.
• In a fission bomb, the fuel must be kept in separate subcritical masses, which will not support fission, to prevent premature detonation.
• David Allvey, chairman of Costain, said: "The board of Costain continues to believe that there is a compelling strategic rationale for combining Costain and Mouchel and creating an enlarged group with enhanced critical mass to meet the customer trend towards larger and longer-term bundled solutions. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Probably the biggest factor in intermarriage and fertility rate change is critical mass. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography
• The management plans to demerge the bar/night club business from the intellectual property side once both businesses have reached critical mass.
• How can we get a critical mass of people involved to keep the club running?
• Hence SMBs do not have the critical mass to establish the internal services portfolio for the inside-out process.
• Only in this way can the critical mass of participation be reached.