: any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons
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That explosion of energy converts itself into a quark and antiquark pair.
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Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons within a proton.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
For example, the subatomic particles known as quarks are really good at binding together.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
Similarly, quarks and gluons by themselves carry color charges, and all the hadrons are color-neutral combinations of those quarks and gluons.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons within a proton.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
For example, the subatomic particles known as quarks are really good at binding together.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
Similarly, quarks and gluons by themselves carry color charges, and all the hadrons are color-neutral combinations of those quarks and gluons.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Quark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quark. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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