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quarkonium

quarkonium noun: a flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark.

Noun

quarkonium (plural quarkoniums or quarkonia)

  1. (particle) A flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark.

Forms of quarkonium

pluralquarkoniums
pluralquarkonia

Origin of quarkonium

From quark + -onium.

Words formed from quarkonium

Questions about quarkonium

What does quarkonium mean?
Quarkonium means a flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark.
What part of speech is quarkonium?
Quarkonium is a noun.
What is the plural of quarkonium?
The plural of quarkonium is quarkoniums.

Words near quarkonium in the dictionary

  1. quarkic
  2. quarkless
  3. quarklike
  4. quarkonia
  5. quarkonic
  6. quarkonium
  7. quarkoniumlike
  8. quarkoniums
  9. quarks
  10. quarkyonic
  11. quarl

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