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Ylem vs Xylem - What's the difference?

ylem | xylem |

As nouns the difference between ylem and xylem

is that 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 while xylem is a vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.

ylem

English

(wikipedia ylem)

Noun

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  • 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).

    References

    * See below

    Anagrams

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    xylem

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.

    • Derived terms

    * metaxylem * protoxylem

    See also

    * phloem