anticobalt
nounEtymology
From anti- + cobalt.
- borrowed from Kobalt
Definitions
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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA