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Re:New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table by semi-extrinsic on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:00PM (#17321988)
Exactly. At best, an inefficient energy storage technology.

Edit: the difference from fusion (which is a primary energy source) is that in fusion your starting reactants are available. In this case, you'd have to spend lots of energy in a heavy ion collide to create the initial reactants from scratch.

Also, this type of matter is experimentally disfavored in the same way as strange matter: if quark matter was stable, all neutron stars should have converted to quark matter already, but measurements appear to be consistent with them being made from ordinary matter.

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