: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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Say two subatomic particles called gluons collide.
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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
At some point, protons and neutrons cease to be meaningful entities, as the Universe takes on the conditions of a quark-gluon plasma.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
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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
At some point, protons and neutrons cease to be meaningful entities, as the Universe takes on the conditions of a quark-gluon plasma.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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