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CHEBI:36346 - quark
| ChEBI ID | CHEBI:36346 |
| ChEBI Name | quark |
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| Definition | Quarks comprise one of two classes of the fundamental particles. Quarks possess fractional electric charges and are not observed in free state. The word "quark" first appears in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and has been chosen by Murray Gell-Mann as a name for fundamental building blocks of particles. |
| Last Modified | 3 August 2006 |
| Submitter | Kirill Degtyarenko |
| ChEBI Ontology |
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| Outgoing Relation(s) |
| quark (CHEBI:36346) is a fermion (CHEBI:36340) |
| quark (CHEBI:36346) is a fundamental particle (CHEBI:33233) |
| Incoming Relation(s) |
| bottom quark (CHEBI:36370) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| charm quark (CHEBI:36369) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| down quark (CHEBI:36367) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| strange quark (CHEBI:36368) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| top quark (CHEBI:36371) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| up quark (CHEBI:36366) is a quark (CHEBI:36346) |
| Synonym | Source |
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| quarks | ChEBI |