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Best new phrase, from the "Fault-tolerant system" page: "graceful degradation", apparently the property that allows a system to keep functioning normally in the event of a failure.

A phenomenon attributed to quark matter, given that the baryon density is high enough and the temperature is below 10^12 kelvins: "color superconductivity".

A hypothetical particle consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down and strange quarks:

A "strangelet". ("Oh, honey, come look at the adorable strangelet! What's that scamp done now? Why, he's instigated an 'ice-nine' type of catastrophic scenario. The little dickens.")