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I'm having some slight confusion over what seems to be a violation of conservation of mass: Both electrons and positrons have positive mass, so now consider an atom that undergoes a beta decay, and so has it's mass changed by the difference in mass between a proton and a neutron. How does it work that you can have the same initial mass, same final mass, and get there by both gaining mass(EC), or loosing mass (β+). What gives?
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