Quark
A constituent of hadrons. Quarks come in six flavors and three colors each. Three quarks make up the baryons, whereas a quark and an antiquark make up the mesons
The other, heavier, quarks are called strange, charm, bottom, and top.
See also: Antiquark, Baryon, Bosons, Bottom, Charm, Charmed Quark, Colour, Down Quark, Fermions, Gluon, Kaon, Lambda, Quark Theory of the Structure of Matter, Strange, Strange Particle, Top.
Subjects: Physics