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Dangerous strangelet production at the LHC is excluded by theory and RHIC observations.

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If they exist and were produced at the LHC, they could conceivably initiate a runaway process converting ordinary matter to strange matter.

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Strangelets are hypothetical small fragments of strange matter containing roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks.

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