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quantum chromodynamics

quan·tumch·ro·modynamics

uncommon

noun

1.

a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together

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