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The colour charge of quarks

There is no such thing as a quark that is red — so why are some quarks labelled ‘red’? Ron Holt explores why colour is a useful model for thinking about quarks

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The atomic nucleus contains protons and neutrons, themselves made of smaller particles called quarks. The force holding the quarks together is described by a theory using the idea of a conserved colour charge, a fundamental ingredient of the standard model of particle physics

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