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up quark

 

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Noun up quark has 1 sense
  1. up quark - a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron
    --1 is a kind of
    quark

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Up Quark

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense: In particle physics, an up quark is one of the six types of quarks. It carries a positive electric charge of +2/3 and is the lightest type of quark.

Usage: Up quarks are essential building blocks of protons and neutrons, which are the basic constituents of atomic nuclei.

Sample Sentence:

Scientists at the LHC are studying the behavior of up quarks in order to understand the nature of matter at the subatomic level.

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