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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hypothetical celestial object that is the remnant of a massive star that has collapsed with a force sufficient to reduce all particles to strange quarks. Also called strange star.
Wiktionary
- n. A hypothetical exotic star composed of quark matter.
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whichbe A hypothetical type of exotic star composed of quark matter, or strange matter. These are ultra-dense phases of degenerate matter theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars. Also called a strange star. (Wikipedia) May 20, 2008