Quarks are theoretical elementary particles, originally proposed independently by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig and named by Gell-Mann. They have fractional charges and come in six types called "flavors": up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom. They are the constituents of protons and neutrons.
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