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Recombination vs Ylem - What's the difference?

recombination | ylem |

As nouns the difference between recombination and ylem

is that recombination is combination a second or subsequent time while ylem is in the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma of which the cosmos consisted at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled, the source of the cosmic background radiation.

recombination

English

Noun

(wikipedia recombination) (en noun)
  • Combination a second or subsequent time.
  • (genetics) The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents
  • (chemistry) The reverse of dissociation

    • Related terms

    * recombine

    ylem

    English

    (wikipedia ylem)

    Noun

    (-)
  • In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma of which the cosmos consisted at the time of recombination in an early stage of its expansion and cooling, when the first atoms formed and photons decoupled, the source of the cosmic background radiation.
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  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1959 , author= James Blish , title= A Clash of Cymbals (UK)/The Triumph of Time (USA) , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=171 , passage= The ylem was the primordial flux of neutrons out of which all else emerged.}}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ylem")

    Usage notes

    * The word ylem reappeared in popular books on science, following the discovery (in 1964-5) of the predicted (in 1948) cosmic background radiation and publication of its images composed from measurements by satellites (COBE in 1992 and WMAP in 2003).

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