runaway in the PONS Dictionary

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flight [or runaway], capital

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Some laboratory reactions must be run under extreme cooling, because they are very prone to hazardous thermal runaway.
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Microwave heating can cause localized thermal runaways in some materials with low thermal conductivity which also have dielectric constants that increase with temperature.
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Always use devices to help prevent runaway equipment (ex. leashes on snowboards and brakes on ski bindings).
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He was once arrested for hiding a runaway slave, and was repeatedly harassed by supporters of slavery.
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Attempting to elude arrest after a drug bust, he is accompanied by his teenage runaway neighbor.
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Raising temperature of the poles by four kelvin would be necessary in order to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect.
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Thermal runaway can occur in civil engineering, notably when the heat released by large amounts of curing concrete is not controlled.
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A number of mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, including dehydration, thermal runaway, and phase change.
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A runaway greenhouse effect occurs if positive feedbacks lead to the evaporation of all greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Some tribes also sheltered or adopted white traders and runaway slaves, and others owned slaves of their own.
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