"supercritical mass" meaning in English

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        "A mass of fissile material that is more than sufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction."
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        "(physics) A mass of fissile material that is more than sufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction."
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        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
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        "(physics) A mass of fissile material that is more than sufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction."
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