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by ianburrell 46 days ago
You can't split a quark, partial quarks doesn't exist. In fact, singular quarks can't exist, if you try to pull quark out of nucleus, it produces another quark to pair with. Quarks can be destroyed in particle accelerators collisions but those aren't components.

Also, all of the components of an atom, electrons and nucleus, have mass.

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top quarks exist as lone quarks and decay before they can pair
Huh? I thought color confinement prevented this?