colour charge

A form of color charge — 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).

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Meanings

nouncolour charge (countable and uncountable, plural colour charges)

plural colour charges

  1. UKalternativecountableuncountablenatural sciencesAlternative spelling of color charge.
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