color charge
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.
Noun[edit]
color charge (countable and uncountable, plural color charges)
- (American spelling, nuclear physics, particle 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).
Related terms[edit]
- color force
- colour force (British spelling)
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Further reading[edit]
- Standard Model on Wikipedia.Wikipedia