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antilithium en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + lithium.

Meanings

  1. (particle, uncountable) The antiatom form of lithium.
    • Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull. 2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:
    • Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium. 1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:
    • The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes. 2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN: