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Gell-Mann--Nishijima formula (Q=I3​+2Y​)

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For the light quark flavors, electric charge is Q=I3​+Y/2, with flavor hypercharge Y=B+S. On (u,d,s) it gives (2/3,−1/3,−1/3), and additivity extends it to the baryon octet and meson octet.

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