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• plural of quark.

quarks

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1. In physics, the elementary particles that make up the protons and neutrons that in turn make up the atomic nucleus. Quarks are the most basic known constituent of matter. (See antimatter.)

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No quarks have been seen in the laboratory because, according to current theory, they cannot exist as free particles.

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In this unusual state, individual quarks and gluons appear to move together as an exceptionally smooth fluid with almost no friction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"In this soup of quark-gluon plasma, there are numerous quarks and gluons passing by and colliding with each other," Lee explains.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Because the Z boson itself barely interacts with the plasma, the researchers could attribute these wake patterns directly to individual quarks traveling through the material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

By colliding heavy ions at nearly the speed of light, researchers can briefly separate quarks and gluons and produce tiny amounts of the same kind of matter that existed during the universe's first microseconds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Are quarks the ultimate constituents of matter, or are they too composed of still smaller and more elementary particles?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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