What Is the Mass Defect of a Hydrogen Atom?

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What's the mass difference between a hydrogen atom and it's constituent particles when they are free, I'm talking about the proton and the electron, not the quarks that make up the proton.
 
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The binding energy (13.7 eV) divided by c^2.
 
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The binding energy (13.7 eV) divided by c^2.
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