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quark-gluon plasmas

quark-gluon plasmas is the plural of quark-gluon plasma.

Meaning of quark-gluon plasma

Noun

quark-gluon plasma (usually uncountable, plural quark-gluon plasmas)

  1. (usually) A predicted state of matter, containing deconfined quarks and gluons, present in the very early universe (first millionth of a second), and recreated at extremely high energy densities, such as those in the collision of heavy atomic nuclei as speeds very close to the speed of light.
    Synonyms:
    quark matter, QCD matter, quagma

Questions about quark-gluon plasmas

What is quark-gluon plasmas the plural of?
Quark-gluon plasmas is the plural of quark-gluon plasma.

Words near quark-gluon plasmas in the dictionary

  1. quark star
  2. quark stars
  3. quark theory
  4. quark-antiquark
  5. quark-gluon plasma
  6. quark-gluon plasmas
  7. quark-nova
  8. quark-novae
  9. quark-novas
  10. quarkic
  11. quarkless

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