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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The flavor of quark that has a charge of + 2/3 , has a mass about 2,450 times that of an electron, and belongs to the second generation of elementary fermions.
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- noun A quark having a
fractional electric charge of +2/3 and amass about 1150 to 1350MeV . Symbol: c
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- noun a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1
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