How to Use quark in a Sentence

quark

noun
  • Top quarks are a quantum system.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Conversely, a neutron is made from one up quark and two down quarks.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • So then, are quarks and gluons the smallest things in the universe?
    — 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
  • Clock Shadow Creamery used to mix it with their soft style quark.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2021
  • The quarks that constitute them also have very little mass of their own.
    — Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Physicists have found hundreds of particles made of quarks over the years.
    — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2018
  • So there aren’t six quarks and six antiquarks but rather 36 in total.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
  • As things cooled, quarks formed and then condensed into protons and neutrons.
    — Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
  • They’re also composed of a quark and an antiquark.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The two bottom quarks decay into two jets of particles, as do the up and down quarks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
  • For example, a meson could consist of a red and an antired quark.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • That means any ripples spotted in this situation are made by a quark alone.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The team modeled how quarks move both along the pion’s direction of motion and across it.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The entangled quark pairs did indeed have magic.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But protons are made from the lightest members of the quark family.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The wonderful dip, creamy with a dairy product called quark, was packed with lump crab and more of those mild fish peppers.
    — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Pentaquarks are heavier cousins of protons and neutrons, which are also made of quarks.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • In Germany, quark is thick and smooth like yogurt, but slightly drier.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Both the colored gluons and quarks are imprisoned within hadrons.
    — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • As correctly stated elsewhere in the obituary, it is known as a charm quark, not charmed.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Fermions make up all the matter in the Universe and include leptons and quarks.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The discovery of quarks, in the late 1960s, was a ground-shaking event in physics.
    — Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • If the top quark is measured to spin in one direction, the anti-top quark must spin the opposite way.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Studying the jet spray enables physicists to determine what kind of quark produced it.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 July 2019
  • On the smallest scales, the strong nuclear force binds quarks into bound structures, three-at-a-time, known as baryons.
    — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But top quarks decay before combining with other quarks.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Virtual strange quark–antiquark pairs are always spin aligned.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026

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