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Strange Quark

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
squark
plural
Strange Quarks
possessive
Strange Quark's
pluralpossessive
Strange Quarks'