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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 − 1/3 and a mass about 10 times that of an electron, belongs to the first generation of elementary fermions, and is a component of nucleons and other hadrons.
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- noun A quark having a
fractional electric charge of -1/3 and amass about 4 to 8MeV . Symbol: d
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- noun a stable quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron
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