How to Use antimatter in a Sentence

antimatter

noun
  • Not the antimatter part, but how it could be used for propulsion.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • The thing about antimatter is that there just really isn’t very much of it at all.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
  • What is dark matter and what is antimatter?
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • So the real thing about antimatter is that physicists don’t know very much about it.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 31 Mar. 2021
  • This showed that antimatter can be safely moved outside the lab.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s a universe where all your matter is replaced with antimatter, and so on.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • What if there had been exactly equal amounts of matter and antimatter?
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Because antimatter is the bridge to the greatest divide in physics.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • These may have collapsed in ways that favored matter over antimatter.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is akin to what happens when an electron meets its antimatter counterpart, or positron.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 June 2026
  • That gamma ray would transform into an electron and its antimatter twin, a positron.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • Its precise descriptions of force fields and antimatter cannons seemed ready-made for the screen.
    — Samuel Horti, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The experiment set out to measure cosmic rays to see if any of them came from antimatter.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
  • 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
  • Antiprotons and positrons make up antimatter atoms, or anti-atoms.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Researchers have now shown for the first time that antimatter behaves in the same unintuitive way.
    — Bailey Bedford, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2019
  • Both of these types of antimatter likely form during the collision of cosmic rays.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Even that tiny imbalance was sufficient to wipe out all of the antimatter in the universe in about one second.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In the beginning, there was matter and antimatter, and then there was only matter.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
  • According to the standard model of physics, that event should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
    — Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Luckily, antimatter is very rare in our universe.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • This one was crafted to measure the effects of gravity on antimatter.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2018
  • It’s billed as a unique machine that produces low-energy antiprotons for the study of antimatter.
    — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In this process, a top quark and its antimatter counterpart, an anti-top quark, are produced along with a Z boson.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Scientists have also figured out that when the universe was born, there were almost equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
    — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Antiquarks are the opposite of quarks and are considered a type of antimatter.
    — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
  • This may sound very strange as it is connected to pairs of matter and antimatter particles popping in and out of existence.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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

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