Quark

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 External links

English

Etymology

First used in 1963 by the discoverer of quarks, Murray Gell-Mann, to name these new particles, it is taken from a non-sense word used in James Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake.

Noun

quark (quarks )

1. In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

Derived terms

• antiquark

Translations

• Catalan: quark m
• Chinese: 夸克
• Dutch: quark
• Finnish: kvarkki
• French: quark
• German: Quark
• Greek: θεωρητικό και υποατομικό σωματίδιο
• Hungarian: kvark
• Italian: quark
• Japanese: クォーク
• Korean: 쿼크 , 쿼크모형
• Polish: kwark
• Portuguese: quark m
• Russian: кварк (kvark)
• Slovenian: kvark
• Spanish: quark m

External links

• Wikipedia article on the Standard model
• Wikipedia article on quarks