What does "color charge" mean?

In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).

What is a synonym for "color charge"?

Common synonyms include: color attribute, color property, educational phrase, teaching term.

Color charge

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In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red). US, countable, particle, uncountable

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color attribute color property educational phrase teaching term

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electric charge incorrect term

Etymology

From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.

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