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Rates are calculated for the processes gg and uu, dd in highly excited quarkgluon plasma. For temperature T>~160 MeV the strangeness abundance saturates during the lifetime (10^-23 sec) of the plasma created in high-energy nuclear collisions. The chemical equilibration time for gluons and light quarks is found to be less than 10^-24 sec.
Rafelski et al. (Mon,) studied this question.