English Explanatory Dictionary

color charge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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).

Word forms

color charge color charges colour charge

Etymology

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

Related words

color force colour force nuclear force residual strong force strong force strong interaction strong nuclear force strong nuclear interaction
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