Strange
The third of the six quarks. Its name is inherited from the particles that were discovered during experiments on cosmic rays shortly after the end of the Second World War. Their signatures differed from those of the then-known particles, hence their "strange" nickname. Once quarks were discovered, these various behaviors were associated to the presence of a new quark in these particles, the "strange" quark.
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