nuclear pasta

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of degenerate matter found within the crusts of neutron stars, where the competition between nuclear attraction and Coulomb repulsion forces of similar magnitude allows for the formation of a variety of complex structures assembled from neutrons and protons.

    不可数 天文

    Watanabe, Gentaro; Iida, Kei; Sato, Katsuhiko (August 2000), “Thermodynamic properties of nuclear "pasta" in neutron star crusts”, in Nuclear Physics A, volume 676, numbers 1-4, →DOI, pages 455–473

词源

From the resemblance of its phases to various types of pasta.

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