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antielement en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + element.

Meanings

1. The antimatter analog of an element; antiatom.
   • He began his analysis by assuming that antimatter could be produced in adequate quantity — which he believes impossible or extremely expensive with present-day technology — and that antihydrogen would be the easiest antielement to produce. 1981, Saul J. Adelman, Benjamin Adelman, Bound for the stars, page 206:
   • In a neutrosophic triplet set, there is a neutral element and antielement for each element. 2018, Memet Şahin, Abdullah Kargın, Mehmet Ali Çoban, Fixed Point Theorem for Neutrosophic Triplet Partial Metric Space:
   • In principle the energy should have been enough for the production of even heavier antinuclei. However, the probability for production of heavier masses is very tiny, and antihelium-3 is still the heaviest known antielement. 1994, Sven Kullander, Kullander Sven, Börje Larsson, Out of Sight!: From Quarks to Living Cells, →ISBN, page 218:

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