Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hagedorn temperature

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

Syllables: hage-dorn tem-per-a-ture
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The temperature at which hadronic matter (i.e. ordinary matter) is no longer stable, and must either "evaporate" or convert into quark matter.

Etymology

Discovered by German physicist Rolf Hagedorn in the 1960s.

Questions

What does hagedorn temperature mean?: The temperature at which hadronic matter (i.e. ordinary matter) is no longer stable, and must either "evaporate" or convert into quark matter.
Where does hagedorn temperature come from?: Discovered by German physicist Rolf Hagedorn in the 1960s.

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