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- noun Plural form of
quark .
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Are there any other quarks from the brain surgery, mental or physical?
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Now we have a neat little periodic table of the smallest of the small, the fundamental particles we call quarks and leptons:
Bump Hunting (Part 1) John 2007
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"Color interaction" in quarks gets stronger with distance
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The force between quarks is carried by gluons (from the word glue), which, like photons, lack mass.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public 2004
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Hadron - A particle with mass, made up of smaller units called quarks that are bound together.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Hadron - A particle with mass, made up of smaller units called quarks that are bound together.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Such an idea had been advanced and the new building blocks were called "quarks" - a word borrowed by the 1969 Nobel Prizewinner in Physics, Murray
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They also don't interact under the strong force -- the powerful force that holds particles called quarks together inside a proton or neutron.
Lisa Randall: CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings Lisa Randall 2011
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They also don't interact under the strong force -- the powerful force that holds particles called quarks together inside a proton or neutron.
Lisa Randall: CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings Lisa Randall 2011
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It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.
bilby commented on the word quarks
"I could spend my whole day writing up trouble tickets and scheduling appointments for the rest of the week. It would really make it that much easier to keep everything organized. It is almost impossible for me to sit at my desk and take care of these things. Everytime I try to create a trouble ticket someone stops by asking a question.
The hardest part is going to be selling this idea to the company I work for. So I still have a few quarks I need to iron out."
- 'Introducing the Four day Work Week', lifeofjustin.com, 16 July 2008.
July 21, 2008