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quarkonium

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[kwawr-koh-nee-uhm, kwahr-] / kwɔrˈkoʊ ni əm, kwɑr- /

noun

Physics.
  1. a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.


Etymology

Origin of quarkonium

1975–80; quark + -on 1 + -ium, on the model of positronium and similarly named particles


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