Meaning & use
quarks
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Elementary particles that combine to form protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles.
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Physicists classify quarks into six types, known as 'flavors.'
The existence of quarks was confirmed experimentally in the late twentieth century.
A note on using this word
Quarks are never found in isolation in nature; they always combine with other quarks due to a property called color confinement.
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