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superbursting

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Producing a superburst.

not-comparable

Examples

“Last⟳ summer's featured creature was Caspar Weinberger's secret (and secretly recorded) speech. He spelled out why his administration is so fully committed to a superbursting armageddon program⟳.”
“... how observations of quasi-persistent transient neutron stars probe the equation of state of dense matter⟳; and how these observations compare⟳ with complimentary studies of quasi-persistent transients and superbursting neutron stars.”
“By fitting improved cooling models, we measure⟳ for the first time the radial temperature profile of the superbursting layer.”
“While most superbursting sources are observed to accrete continuously at a high rate, around 10% of the Eddington limit⟳, a number⟳ of recent observations clearly at odds with thermonuclear ignition models have⟳ challenged the standard scenario.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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