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antiproton
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antiproton [′an·tē¦prō‚tän]
(particle physics)
The antiparticle to the proton; a strongly interacting baryon which is stable, carries unit negative charge, has the same mass as the proton (938.3 MeV), and has spin ½.


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But no one had heretofore succeeded in nudging a positron into orbit around an anti-proton, making an atom of antimatter.
Early this month their proposal was accepted by the management of the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, for an experiment with falling (or rising) anti-protons.
 
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