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Quark vs Antiblue - What's the difference?

quark | antiblue |

As a noun quark

is in the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

As an adjective antiblue is

describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.

quark

English

(wikipedia quark)

Etymology 1

First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
  • * 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
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  • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity,
  • (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
  • Derived terms
    * antiquark
    See also
    * beauty quark * bottom quark * charm quark * down quark * strange quark * top quark * truth quark * up quark

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quark, from late (etyl) twarc, from a (etyl) language, compare (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * qvark

    Noun

    (-)
  • A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
  • See also
    * curd

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeia, from the sound of the squawk.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.
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    antiblue

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (physics) Describing one of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to blue in a quark.