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antilithium

antilithium noun: the antiatom form of lithium.

Noun

antilithium (uncountable)

  1. (particle) The antiatom form of lithium.
    • 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

Origin of antilithium

From anti- + lithium.

Questions about antilithium

What does antilithium mean?
Antilithium means the antiatom form of lithium.
What part of speech is antilithium?
Antilithium is a noun.

Words near antilithium in the dictionary

  1. antiliterate
  2. antiliterature
  3. antilithiatic
  4. antilithic
  5. antilithics
  6. antilithium
  7. antilithogenic
  8. antilitter
  9. antilittering
  10. antiliturgical
  11. antiliturgist

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