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antimatter

[ an-tee-mat-er, an-tahy- ]

noun

, Physics.
  1. matter composed only of antiparticles, especially antiprotons, antineutrons, and positrons.


antimatter

/ ˈæntɪˌmætə /

noun

  1. a form of matter composed of antiparticles, such as antihydrogen, consisting of antiprotons and positrons
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antimatter

/ ăntĭ-măt′ər /

  1. A form of matter that consists of antiparticles.


antimatter

  1. In physics , matter made of antiparticles .


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Word History and Origins

Origin of antimatter1

First recorded in 1950–55; anti- + matter
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Example Sentences

A team of physicists is now claiming the first direct observation of the long-sought Breit-Wheeler process, in which two particles of light, or photons, crash into one another and produce an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron.

From this spinning stellar husk, a “wind” of electrons and their antimatter partners blows outwards at a respectable percentage of the speed of light.

To get closer to the answer, we have studied a process where matter transforms into antimatter and vice versa.

For instance, electrons have antimatter twins called positrons.

Then they compared that with the reconstructed digital images of the transparencies, creating a new, antimatter picture they called a “compensation image.”

Instead, dark matter is its own antimatter, so any pair of particles that meet will destroy each other.

The distribution was unequal of course; antimatter could not exist in contact with ordinary matter.

On the average, one atom out of every ten million in the universe was an atom of antimatter.

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