English

Alternative forms

• colour charge

Noun

color charge ‎(plural color charges)

1. (physics) In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, anti-quarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anti-colors -- named red, green, and blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g., anti-red). The terminology has nothing to do with visible color.

Related terms

• color force / colour force

See also

• strong force , strong nuclear force
• strong interaction , strong nuclear interaction
• residual strong force, nuclear force

External links

• Standard Model on Wikipedia.Wikipedia