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Quark
The fundamental particles of hadronic matter such as protons, neutrons and mesons. There exist six 'flavors' of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom. They are confined to hadrons by the strong force.
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 22 December 2001.
Initially published on 22 December 2001.
