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It depends on which isotope of carbon we are talking about.

Each Proton contains 2 up and 1 down quark and each neutron contains 2 down and 1 up quark.

Carbon 12 contains 6 neutrons and 6 protons. So for this isotope the answer would be 36 quarks in total.

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