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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 340,000 times that of an electron, and belongs to the third generation of elementary fermions.
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- noun A quark having a
fractional electric charge of +2/3 and amass about 178,000MeV . Symbol: t
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- noun a hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron
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