Quark Matter Definition
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A state of matter which may exist at extremely high temperatures and densities, composed of quarks and gluons moving freely and not bound together within hadrons. Quark matter may have existed shortly after the Big Bang, may exist in the cores of neutron stars, and may be produced by the collision of two atomic nuclei at extremely high energy.
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