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The color force is another term for the strong nuclear force. (It doesn't have anything to do with actual colors.) Basically, the color force is the force binding two (or more) quarks together; it's mediated by the exchange of gauge particles called gluons. A quark will change color from, say, "red" to "green" by emitting a red-antigreen gluon, which can be absorbed by a "green" quark (which will then change to "red").

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