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antiquark comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has acceptance statu	has definition	has charge	has antiparticle	is accelerated by
antiparticle	particle		Particles with identical mass and spin as those of ordinary matter, but with opposite charge. Antimatter has been produced experimentally, but little of it is found in nature. Why this should be so is one of the questions that must be answered by any adequate theory of the early universe.
charged particle	particle		A particle with non-zero charge	non-zero		electric or magnetic fields
parton	elementary particle	hypothetical	A hypothetical pointlike constituent of a nucleon, which contains all the charge of the nucleon.
antiquark	charged particle	hypothetical	The antiparticle of the quark.	non-zero	quark	electric or magnetic fields

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