: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma.
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The photon and the gluons of the Standard Model are massless, whereas the massive Standard Model particles range from the electron, at about half-an-MeV, to the top quark, at 173 GeV.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Say two subatomic particles called gluons collide.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
At the highest energies, gold-ion collisions melt protons and neutrons into quark-gluon plasma, a fluid that once filled the early universe.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
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Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The photon and the gluons of the Standard Model are massless, whereas the massive Standard Model particles range from the electron, at about half-an-MeV, to the top quark, at 173 GeV.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Say two subatomic particles called gluons collide.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
At the highest energies, gold-ion collisions melt protons and neutrons into quark-gluon plasma, a fluid that once filled the early universe.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gluon
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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