Experimentally,strange Particles Can Be Produced in Abundance,but They Decay Relatively

question 19

Multiple Choice

Experimentally,strange particles can be produced in abundance,but they decay relatively slowly.This occurs because strangeness

• A)is conserved in both their production and decay.
• B)is conserved in their production but not in their decay.
• C)is conserved in their decay but not in their production.
• D)is not conserved in either their production or their decay.

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Definitions:

Regional Metamorphism

Metamorphism affecting an extensive region and related mostly to regional burial, heating, and deformation of rocks.

Contact Metamorphism

Metamorphism that principally involves heating of the rocks next to a magma or hot igneous material.

Subduction

The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge.

Thrust Faulting

A type of faulting where one rock layer is pushed up and over another due to compressional forces.