superdense
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“It was influential; it was visionary,” says Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, of Oppenheimer’s work on black holes and neutron stars, the superdense corpses of expired massive stars.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 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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