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ダウンクォーク Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ダウンクォーク

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Meanings

1

down quark

Technical term in particle physics; one of the fundamental constituents of matter.

陽よう子しはアップクォーク2個ことダウンクォーク1個いっこからできて

いる

。

A proton is made of two up quarks and one down quark.

Related words

アップクォーク
Up quark; together with the down quark, it forms protons and neutrons.
クォーク
Quark; the broader class of elementary particles to which the down quark belongs.

Built from

ダウン+クォーク

Written forms

ダウン・クォーク
- ダウンクォーク
  Variant with interpunct; less common but seen in some technical contexts.
- ダウン・クォーク

Etymology

Borrowed from English 'down quark', a term coined in the 1960s in particle physics.