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Michael F. Dmitriyev said:X-ray and Gamma both being "photon" aren’t massless.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/radioact/alldefs.htm
Gamma ray
a discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy, without mass or charge, emitted by a radionuclide. They cannot penetrate lead or a large thickness of concrete. See x-ray.
X-ray
a discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy, without mass or charge, emitted by an x-ray machine. See gamma-ray.
These are definitions pulled from one of many web sites.
An electron has a mass of 0.5MeV which is in the range of gamma rays. Just because the energy of the gamma ray is quoted as being 0.5MeV doesn't give it mass, just similar energy.
If any photon had non zero rest mass, then it's relativistic mass would be infinite.
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