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deuterium bottleneck

deuterium bottleneck noun: a critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.

Noun

deuterium bottleneck

  1. A critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.

Questions about deuterium bottleneck

What does deuterium bottleneck mean?
Deuterium bottleneck means a critical stage in the early universe's nucleosynthesis process, in which the temperature was high enough for many photons to have energy greater than the binding energy of deuterium; therefore any deuterium that was formed was immediately destroyed.
What part of speech is deuterium bottleneck?
Deuterium bottleneck is a noun.

Words near deuterium bottleneck in the dictionary

  1. deuteric
  2. deuteride
  3. deuterides
  4. deuteriochloroform
  5. deuterium
  6. deuterium bottleneck
  7. deuterium oxide
  8. deuteriums
  9. deutero-
  10. Deutero-Isaiah
  11. Deutero-Malay

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