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  • noun The antimatter equivalent of helium.

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  • noun physics The antiatom form of helium

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anti- +‎ helium

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  • Any observations of an antihelium nucleus would provide evidence for the existence of antimatter, writes Nobel laureate Samuel Ting of MIT, who is the principal investigator of the project.

    Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011

  • Any observations of an antihelium nucleus would provide evidence for the existence of antimatter, writes Nobel laureate Samuel Ting of MIT, who is the principal investigator of the project.

    Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang PhD Santhosh Mathew 2011

  • Speaking of which, it appeared for some time that a similar fate awaited Nobel Prize winner Sam Ting’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, designed to search for antimatter (antihelium nuclei, in fact) and other things in space.

    Remote Views John 2009

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