How to Use antimatter in a Sentence

antimatter

noun

• Now, scientists have made some antimatter in a lab and used that to test one of these ideas.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2019
• The thing about antimatter is that there just really isn’t very much of it at all.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
• So the real thing about antimatter is that physicists don’t know very much about it.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
• Zandri and Hooker are like pop music’s matter and antimatter, and it’s among the film’s virtues to leave it doubt which is which.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• In other words, does an antimatter droplet fall down or up?
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• And there’s a universe where all your matter is replaced with antimatter, and so on.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• This picture at first seemed just a manner of speaking but soon led to the discovery of antimatter.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
• Its precise descriptions of force fields and antimatter cannons seemed ready-made for the screen.
  — Samuel Horti, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The first stage will see the FCC collide electrons with positrons, the antimatter electron counterpart.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
• Researchers have now shown for the first time that antimatter behaves in the same unintuitive way.
  — Bailey Bedford, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
• The experiment set out to measure cosmic rays to see if any of them came from antimatter.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
• What if there had been exactly equal amounts of matter and antimatter?
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• In the beginning, there was matter and antimatter, and then there was only matter.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
• At least four spacewalks are needed to fix the spectrometer, on the hunt for elusive dark matter and antimatter for 8 ½ years.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Both of these types of antimatter likely form during the collision of cosmic rays.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2021
• The $2 billion instrument has been up there hunting for antimatter and dark matter for 8 ½ years.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• In the lab, Wu and Shaknov used it to bombard a sheet of copper with deuterons, generating an unstable isotope, Cu 64, as a source of positrons—the antimatter.
  — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• In a project that began last month, researchers will transport antimatter by truck and then use it to study the strange behaviour of rare radioactive nuclei.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2018
• Antiquarks are the opposite of quarks and are considered a type of antimatter.
  — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• In 1928, one man finally succeeded, and in the process, managed to predict the existence of antimatter.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2017
• The Blakes’ house and Faden’s workshop are matter and antimatter, absolute contraries.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021
• So how did the researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf figure out how to generate antimatter?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021
• But to isolate it in superfluid helium is a big job, one that Mills’s lab will do by tuning a special antimatter beam.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• Instead, they are almost always found in groups of three in particles known as baryons—including the proton and neutron—or in pairs called mesons, which consist of a quark and an antimatter quark.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• No, these mattresses are not stuffed with caviar or antimatter or five hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars in unmarked bills.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• During this process the beauty quark turns into a strange quark and produces a pair of leptons—specifically, a lepton and its antimatter partner.
  — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
• And the decay of heavy neutrinos moments after the Big Bang has been suggested as the possible reason why there’s so much more matter than antimatter in the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• This would have caused the axion field to rotate, generating an excess of matter over antimatter.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
• The top notes are listed as cosmic dust and antimatter particles, the heart of the fragrance is described as starlight, the scent of Supernova, and the base notes are atmospheric vapour, and dark nebulae.
  — Essence, 3 Dec. 2020
• Since physicists discovered the first antimatter particle in 1932, the substance has become, in some ways, quite mundane.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020

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