Meaning of QUARK
| Pronunciation: | | kwurk
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| | Definition: | | [n] hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3 |
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| | See Also: | | beauty quark, bottom quark, charm quark, down quark, elementary particle, fundamental particle, hadron, squark, strange quark, subatomic particle, top quark, truth quark, up quark | |
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| | Definition: | | An elementary subatomic particle that composes a hadron. There are several "flavors" of quarks:- Up (found in normal matter)
- Down (also found in normal matter)
- Charm or Charmed
- Bottom or Beauty
- Top or Truth
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