How to Use gluon in a Sentence

gluon

noun
  • Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • They’re made of pairs and trios of quarks that are bound together by stringy trails of gluons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The team then looked for traces of the charm quark and traced its history of gluon emissions.
    — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2022
  • This force binds quarks and gluons together to make protons and neutrons.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists haven't been able to find this quark-gluon plasma, until now.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Physicists named this distinct phase of weird matter the quark-gluon plasma.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists call this state of matter a quark-gluon plasma.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The universe’s primordial quark-gluon plasma was, in fact, soupy.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In a sense, the quark-gluon plasma seems impossible.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The gluons then connect protons with neutrons to form a nucleus.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The colors reflect how gluons and quarks interact with each other.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
  • Instead, space was exclusively filled with quark-gluon plasma, or quark soup.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The total number of quarks and gluons inside a proton is always changing.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • At that time, the universe was hot enough for quarks and gluons to move freely rather than being confined inside atomic nuclei.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Hadrons are like beanbags, full of quarks and gluons, that spray around everywhere upon collision.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There are eight massless gluons that mediate the strong force, and no other particles are involved in it.
    — Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But there’s much more—protons and neutrons are made up of quarks held together by gluons, one of several types of boson.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
  • The building blocks of atomic nuclei, quarks and gluons, floated around loosely in a kind of primordial soup.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 May 2026
  • And finally, interactions between the quarks and the gluons produce the rest of the mass.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • With the success of the new theory of quarks and gluons, Lagrangians were once again in ascendance.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • What surprised the researchers was that the flow of quark-gluon plasma caught the heavy D-zero particles.
    — NBC News, 12 June 2017
  • But in this special kind of collision, the number of gluons exchanged is important.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
  • It is composed of smaller particles called quarks and gluons, bound by the strong interaction.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Or take gluons, particles that convey the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The proton is a collection of quarks and gluons moving at relativistic speeds around a central point.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
  • This cohesion means the plasma-quark gluon wasn't just a fluid, a term which can include a liquid or a gas, but acted as a liquid.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The building blocks of atoms, protons and neutrons, are composed of a collection of particles called quarks and gluons.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building blocks that hold everything together, from rocks to stars.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The same rule applies to interactions between quarks and gluons and between gluons and gluons.
    — Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024

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