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gluon
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glu·on  (gln)
n.
A hypothetical massless, neutral elementary particle believed to mediate the strong interaction that binds quarks together.
[glu(e) + -on1.]
gluon  (gln)
The subatomic particle that mediates the strong force. The exchange of gluons between two quarks changes the color of the quarks and results in the attractive force holding them together in hadrons. Gluons are bosons. See Table at subatomic particle.
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Noun1.gluon - a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks
gauge boson - a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles


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He and others later constructed the quantum field theory of quarks and gluons called quantum chromodynamics, which seems to account for all the nuclear particles and their strong interactions.
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