Word: chargeless
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...justify the confidence physicists have placed in the so-called Standard Model, a powerful theoretical edifice that has reduced a once bewildering array of subatomic particles to just a few fundamental constituents. These include three pairs of light particles known as leptons, of which the negatively charged electron and chargeless neutrino are the most familiar, and three pairs of heavier particles known by the whimsical name of quarks. "Up" and "down" quarks combine to create protons and neutrons, the components of everyday matter, while "charm" and "strange" quarks conspire to make more exotic particles, the sort produced in deep space...