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[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wait, I'm lost. What does it have to do with the amount of protons?

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.

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