• Degenerate matter occurs when the Pauli exclusion principle significantly alters a state of matter at low temperature. The term is used in astrophysics...
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    condensates and Fermionic condensates (in extreme cold), neutron-degenerate matter (in extreme density), and quark–gluon plasma (at extremely high energy)...
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  • break into their constituents and matter exists as some form of degenerate matter or quark matter. Such states of matter are studied in high-energy physics...
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  • result in dramatic changes in its physical or chemical properties. Degenerate matter Exotic atoms Negative mass would possess some strange properties,...
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  • Neutronium (category Exotic matter)
    collapse into a denser phase of matter). In scientific literature the term "neutron-degenerate matter" or simply neutron matter is used for this material....
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    chromodynamics, that it will become quark matter, which is a degenerate Fermi gas of quarks. Some authors use "nuclear matter" in a broader sense, and refer to...
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    temperature QCD matter. It includes degenerate matter and the result of high energy heavy nuclei collisions. In physics, degenerate matter refers to the...
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  • called white or degenerate dwarfs are made up mainly of degenerate matter; typically carbon and oxygen nuclei in a sea of degenerate electrons. White...
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    Helium flash (category Exotic matter)
    fundamental quality of degenerate matter is that increases in temperature do not produce an increase in the pressure of the matter until the thermal pressure...
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  • Degeneracy (redirect from Degenerate)
    degeneracy, degenerate, or degenerative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Degeneracy, degenerate, or degeneration may refer to: Degenerate (album), a...
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    temperature to fuse. What is left is then a dense sphere of electron-degenerate matter that cools slowly by thermal radiation, eventually becoming a black...
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  • Strange matter (or strange quark matter) is quark matter containing strange quarks. In extreme environments, strange matter is hypothesized to occur in...
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  • which forms matter consisting mostly of quarks SU(2) color superconductivity – Property of quark matter Strange matter – Degenerate matter made from strange...
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  • Quark star (category Exotic matter)
    equation of state of quark matter is uncertain, as is the transition point between neutron-degenerate matter and quark matter. Theoretical uncertainties...
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    neutron star the matter is in a state known as neutron-degenerate matter, with a more exotic form of degenerate matter, QCD matter, possibly present...
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    White dwarf (redirect from Degenerate dwarf)
    white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's...
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    pressure, also known as Fermi pressure. This exotic form of matter is known as degenerate matter. The immense gravitational force of a star's mass is normally...
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    masses above 500 ME, gravity will cause the planet to shrink (see degenerate matter). Kelvin–Helmholtz heating can cause a gas giant to radiate more energy...
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    any proposed equation of state of degenerate matter is highly speculative. Other forms of hypothetical degenerate matter may be possible, and the resulting...
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    Neutron star (category Exotic matter)
    exotic forms of matter are possible, including degenerate strange matter (containing strange quarks in addition to up and down quarks), matter containing high-energy...
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    Nuclear pasta (category Exotic matter)
    astrophysics and nuclear physics, nuclear pasta is a theoretical type of degenerate matter that is postulated to exist within the crusts of neutron stars. If...
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    Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of...
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    In any case, although some of the star's matter may be returned to the interstellar medium, a degenerate remnant will be left behind whose mass is not...
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  • Strange matter – Degenerate matter made from strange quarks QCD matter – Hypothetical phases of matter Zyga, Lisa (2010-04-27). "Signs of dark matter may...
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    gravitational compression. Such a scenario may arise in stars containing degenerate matter, in which electron degeneracy pressure rather than normal thermal...
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    variation of mass with the velocities of electrons that comprise their degenerate matter. He showed that the mass of a white dwarf could not exceed 1.44 times...
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    white. A white dwarf is a stellar remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. They are very dense; a white dwarf's mass is comparable to that of...
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    A white dwarf is the remains of a dead star, composed of electron-degenerate matter. It is thought to be the final stage in the evolution of stars not...
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    low mass, according to the equation of state of non-relativistic degenerate matter. A polytrope with index n = 3 is a good model for the cores of white...
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  • Accordingly, fuzzballs are theorized to be the terminal phase of degenerate matter. Mathur calculated that the physical surfaces of fuzzballs have radii...
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