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by hongsy 1742 days ago
> Only a little over 1% the mass of a neutron is the three quarks normally listed.

Do you have a source for this?

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You can add up the mass of one up quark (2.2MeV) and two down quarks (4.7MeV each) and compare that to the mass of a neutron (939.565MeV)