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We consider the change of the strange-quark chemical potential in the phasediagram of nuclear matter, employing the Wilson loop and scalar quarkcondensate order parameters, mass-scaled partition functions and enforcingflavor conservation. Assuming the region beyond the hadronic phase to bedescribed by massive, correlated and interacting quarks, in the spirit oflattice and effective QCD calculations, we find the strange-quark chemicalpotential to change sign: from positive in the hadronic phase - to zero upondeconfinement - to negative in the partonic domain. We propose this change inthe sign of the strange-quark chemical potential to be an experimentallyaccessible order parameter and a unique, concise and well-defined indication ofthe quark-deconfinement phase transition in nuclear matter.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures within text, 2 figures(6,B3) as separate files.  To be published in J.Phys.G: Nucl.&Part.Phys. G28 (2002

The strange-quark chemical potential as an experimentally accessible order parameter of the deconfinement phase transition for finite baryon density