One distinctive physical characteristic of matter inside a white dwarf star is that it is
A) composed only of protons, with electrostatic repulsion preventing stellar collapse.
B) of extremely high density compared with ordinary stellar matter.
C) composed only of neutrons.
D) composed only of electrons in a degenerate state.
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