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What are valence quarks?

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The quarks which determine the quantum numbersof hadrons are called valence quarks; apart from these, any hadron may contain an indefinite number of virtual (or sea) quarks, antiquarks, and gluons which do not influence its quantum numbers.[11]

There are two families of hadrons: baryons, with three valence quarks, and mesons, with a valence quark and an antiquark.[12]

The most common baryons are the proton and the neutron, the building blocks of the atomic nucleus

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