superdense
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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When the mass of several suns is compressed into an orb that is 10 km in diameter, extreme gravity crushes mountains of superdense material into molehills that are millimeters tall.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2023
And they could help predict how the superdense matter in neutron stars behaves or how a proton breaks up during a particle collision.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2018
A magnetar is thought to consist of a superdense core of neutrons surrounded by a rigid crust of atoms about a mile deep with a surface made of iron.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Early in her graduate work, searching around for something, she noticed how bubbles in superdense, superheated liquids bounced and popped to the metal on her lab stereo.
From Nature ● Apr. 10, 2013
The star blows away most of its gaseous envelope, leaving only the superdense core.
From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood
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