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A gluon is a type of massless elementary particle that mediates the strong interaction between quarks, acting as the exchange particle for the interaction. Gluons are massless vector bosons, thereby having a spin of 1. Wikipedia

Color charge: octet (8 linearly independent types)

Composition: Elementary particle

Electric charge: 0 e

Family: Gauge boson

Interactions: Strong interaction

Mass: 0 (theoretical value); < 1.3 MeV/c2 (experimental limit)

Spin: 1 ħ