color charge
In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks,…In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
Meaning
1 senses(US, countable, particle, uncountable)In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
Origin
From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do wFrom a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.
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Forms
plural: color chargesWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable