strange quark

strange quark
noun
a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
Syn: ↑squark
Hypernyms: ↑quark

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Physics.
a quark having electric charge -1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness -1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks. Also called s quark.
[1970-75]

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strange quark noun (physics)
One of six categories of quark, having a charge of −1/3, spin of 1/2 and mass of 195
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Main Entry:strange

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strange quark,
a quark having a charge of ―1/3 and a spin of +½: »

When Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena formulated the quark theory, a third quark was required. It was dubbed a strange quark because the particles that contained it acted in a strange way (Robert H. March).


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