anticolor
Noun
Meaning
anticolor (plural anticolors)
Alternative spelling of anticolour
Examples
A quark may pair up with an antiquark: the quark has a color and the antiquark has the corresponding anticolor.
A quark, which will have a single color value, can form a bound system with an antiquark carrying the corresponding anticolor.
Each of them is complemented by an anticolor – antiblue, antigreen, and antired.
Gluons may be thought of as carrying both color and anticolor, but to correctly understand how they are combined, it is necessary to consider the mathematics of color charge in more detail.
Every quark carries a color, while every antiquark carries an anticolor.
Similarly, the combination of three quarks, each with different color charges, or three antiquarks, each with anticolor charges, will result in the same "white" color charge and the formation of a baryon or antibaryon.