anticobalt

noun

Etymology

From anti- + cobalt.

  1. borrowed from Kobalt
  2. prefixed as anticobalt — “anti + cobalt

Definitions

  1. The antiatom form of cobalt.

    • It is believed that the same experiment with anticobalt nuclei would have the exact opposite result.
    • 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.
    • 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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