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color charge

color charge noun: in the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).

Noun

color charge (countable and uncountable, plural color charges)

  1. (US, particle, nuclear physics) In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).

Forms of color charge

pluralcolor charges
alternative UKcolour charge

Origin of color charge

From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.

Questions about color charge

What does color charge mean?
Color charge means in the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
What part of speech is color charge?
Color charge is a noun.
What is the plural of color charge?
The plural of color charge is color charges.

Words near color charge in the dictionary

  1. color blindness
  2. color blindnesses
  3. color by number
  4. color by numbers
  5. color center
  6. color charge
  7. color charges
  8. color code
  9. color coded
  10. color codes
  11. color coding

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