QGP

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A form of quark-gluon plasma — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismnatural sciencesInitialism of quark-gluon plasma.

    Physicists are attempting to make QGP by smashing large atomic nuclei into one another at such high energies that the protons and neutrons squeeze together.

    2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 126

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
quagma

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

GQP
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