antielement

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ element

Noun

antielement (plural antielements)

1. The antimatter analog of an element; antiatom.
   • 1981, Saul J. Adelman, Benjamin Adelman, Bound for the stars, page 206:

     He began his analysis by assuming that antimatter could be produced in adequate quantity — which he believes impossible or extremely expensive with present-day technology — and that antihydrogen would be the easiest antielement to produce.

   • 1994, Sven Kullander, Kullander Sven, Börje Larsson, Out of Sight!: From Quarks to Living Cells, →ISBN, page 218:

     In principle the energy should have been enough for the production of even heavier antinuclei. However, the probability for production of heavier masses is very tiny, and antihelium-3 is still the heaviest known antielement.

   • 2018, Memet Şahin, Abdullah Kargın, Mehmet Ali Çoban, Fixed Point Theorem for Neutrosophic Triplet Partial Metric Space:

     In a neutrosophic triplet set, there is a neutral element and antielement for each element.