anticobalt

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ cobalt

Noun

anticobalt (uncountable)

1. (physics) The antiatom form of cobalt.
   • 1996, Robert Ehlrich, 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.