How to Use quark in a Sentence

quark

noun

• The discovery of quarks, in the late 1960s, was a ground-shaking event in physics.
  — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• The quarks that make up protons have anti-quarks, and so on.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• So then, are quarks and gluons the smallest things in the universe?
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• In the natural world, baryons have at most one heavy quark.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2017
• Then in 1990, Steven Weinberg found a way to connect the world of quarks and gluons to sticky nuclei.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Clock Shadow Creamery used to mix it with their soft style quark.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2021
• Then came the Hadron epoch, when the first protons and neutrons formed from quarks, about 1 second after the Big Bang.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
• Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• The Tevatron discovered the top quark, the Bc meson, and the tau neutrino.
  — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
• Fermions make up all the matter in the Universe and include leptons and quarks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• But what about an ant or a tree— or more radically, atoms and quarks?
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• In ordinary matter, quarks come in two types, up and down.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• Physicists have found hundreds of particles made of quarks over the years.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
• The two bottom quarks decay into two jets of particles, as do the up and down quarks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
• The quarks that constitute them also have very little mass of their own.
  — Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• The wonderful dip, creamy with a dairy product called quark, was packed with lump crab and more of those mild fish peppers.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• But protons are made from the lightest members of the quark family.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• So, a doubly-charmed baryon is a particle made from two charm quarks and one up quark.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
• Gluons, the particles of the strong force, connect with two up quarks and one down quark to create a proton.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Each column is an output: The Higgs might morph into a pair of W bosons, or (more likely) a pair of quarks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
• At the start of the universe, some believe the quarks floated in a fluid with gluon particles.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• And finally, interactions between the quarks and the gluons produce the rest of the mass.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• This hot—as in, hotter-than-the sun hot—world held the ingredients of atoms, protons, and neutrons in what is called quarks.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• There are 12 fields of matter that produce electrons, up quarks, and down quarks—the building blocks of all atoms—and neutrinos.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• For example, a meson could consist of a red and an antired quark.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• In Germany, quark is thick and smooth like yogurt, but slightly drier.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2018
• First, the movements of the quarks actually produce mass.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• What surprised the researchers was that the flow of quark-gluon plasma caught the heavy D-zero particles.
  — NBC News, 12 June 2017
• Normal, healthy particles like the electron and the top quark get their masses through something called the Higgs mechanism.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024