strange matter

1. A hypothetical, extremely dense form of matter composed entirely of strange quarks . These quarks are not grouped into separate particles (like the quarks bundled into protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei) but form a single undifferentiated mass. The material of which hypothetical quark stars are composed is thought to be strange matter; some evidence for strange matter has also been found in collisions in particle accelerators and in seismic events possibly triggered by the passing of strange matter through the Earth.

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A strange matter to discuss with a lout, but he was so wonderful a listener!

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Eustacia regarded them long, as if they were the page of a book in which she read a new and a strange matter.

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But then still clearer understanding of this whole strange matter came to him.

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But it is useless to seek an explanation of this strange matter from the facts at present before us.

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It is lucky Henrietta went away before papa came, observed Amy, after they had discussed the strange matter at some length.

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