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To: AdmSmith
The article is not correct, a positron is not really antimatter, it is just an antiparticle.

It IS antimattter. Not an anti-atom, but electrons and positrons (anti-electrons) are matter. So are quarks and anti-quarks, although at that level the difference between matter and energy is somewhat fuzzy.

20 posted on 11/12/2009 1:25:33 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

A single positron is not normally referred to as antimatter, although it is an antiparticle. Loosely you use the term antimatter when you have “many” antiparticles.


21 posted on 11/12/2009 3:41:13 PM PST by AdmSmith
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