Structural view of a proton with two up quarks (blue and red) and one down quark (green). The forces between quarks are mediated by gluons (yellow). T

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Structural view of a proton with two up quarks (blue and red) and one down quark (green). The forces between quarks are mediated by gluons (yellow). The proton is a subatomic particle with a positive electric charge of positive 1 and a mass slightly smaller than that of a neutron.

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