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- noun The antimatter equivalent of hydrogen.
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- noun physics, uncountable The
antimatter equivalent ofhydrogen , consisting of anantiproton and anpositron (antielectron ). - noun physics, countable An
atom of theantimatter equivalent ofhydrogen .
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Examples
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Most recently, a collaboration of scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory have reported the confinement of antihydrogen atoms for more than 15 minutes in a magnetic trap.
Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011
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(In normal hydrogen atom an electron is bound to a proton, but in antihydrogen atom an antielectron (positron) is bound to an antiproton.)
Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011
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Most recently, a collaboration of scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory have reported the confinement of antihydrogen atoms for more than 15 minutes in a magnetic trap.
Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011
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(In normal hydrogen atom an electron is bound to a proton, but in antihydrogen atom an antielectron (positron) is bound to an antiproton.)
Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011
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An excellent history piece of how physicists discovered real antimatter (why antihydrogen doesn't count) by Antonino Zichichi.
history of science 2010
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The controlled production of antihydrogen observed in ATHENA is a great technological and scientific event.
Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives 2002
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Even more so because ATHENA has produced antihydrogen in unexpectedly abundant quantities.
Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives 2002
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Initial results indicate that at least some of the antiparticles have bound together to become neutral antihydrogen atoms.
Antimatter Atoms Captured – First Time Ever | Impact Lab 2002
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He continued the pumping process for several minutes longer, just to be sure the last antihydrogen atom had been flushed from the pod before they shut off the containment field.
Betrayal Lois Tilton 2000
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Russell Weatheral had been a Cal Tech research physicist who, at age 67, keeled over from a heart attack in 1996, a couple of months after he had helped confirm the formation of antihydrogen atoms in the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva.
A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997
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