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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ cobalt.

Noun

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anticobalt (uncountable)

  1. (physics) The antiatom form of cobalt.
    • 1996, Robert Ehrlich (physicist), What If You Could Unscramble an Egg?, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
      It is believed that the same experiment with anticobalt nuclei would have the exact opposite result.
    • 1991, G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd, The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70:
      Of course, we have not been able to test the validity of the CP conservation using anticobalt, although other experiments have been conducted to show that it is preserved to a high degree.
    • 2013 [1965], Lev Okun, Weak Interaction in Elementary Particles: International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 46:
      For example, in the well-known Wu experiment arguing from the observed asymmetry of Co60-decay electrons (without the experiments on anticobalt nuclei!) it followed that charge parity was not conserved.
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