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Etymology 1
First used in 1963 by the discoverer of quarks, w:Murray Gell-Mann|Murray Gell-Mann, to name these new particles. The literary connection to w:James Joyce|James Joyce's w:Finnegans Wake|Finnegans Wake was asserted later (quote below).

Pronunciation
IPA|/kw��k/, /kw��k/

Noun
en-noun

1. particles In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks are never found alone in nature and combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.

#: 1993: Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — w:James Gleick|James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Derived terms
antiquark

See also
beauty quark
bottom quark
charm quark
down quark
strange quark
top quark
truth quark
up quark

Slovene: kvark m
Spanish: quark m
Swedish: kvark#Swedish|kvark
Turkish: kuark
Ukrainian: ква�к#Ukrainian|ква�к m
Urdu: ur-Arab|ک�ارک (kv�rk)
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Etymology 2
G. Quark, from Middle High German quarc

Noun
quark

1. a soft creamy cheese. The Russian quark and Finnish quark are somewhat different. The Russian version is firmer in consistency and contains about 15% milk fat, whereas the Finnish quark often contains less than 1% milk fat.

See also
curd

Translations
trans-top|soft creamy cheese
Czech: tvaroh m
Finnish: maitorahka, rahka
German: Quark m
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Russian: �во�ог (tvoróg, tvórog) m
Swedish: kvark n
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