technetium star (English, noun)
expansion: technetium star (plural technetium stars)
Senses:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: A star in which technetium has been detected. Technetium is too short-lived to occur primordially in the star, if the star is about 4.5 billion years old (the estimated age of the Earth), so the star must be producing technetium.
Forms:
form: technetium stars
tags: plural