What is anti matter?

Question

Someone explain it to me in simple form please...but still in detail

Answer 1

I had a think about this and found it quite hard to explain. I've included a wikipedia link below:

Basically, anti matter is matter made up of "anti" particles. So if you think of an atom of being made up of electron, neutrons and protons, then anti matter atoms are made up of anti-electrons, anti-neutrons and anti-protons. When matter and antimatter come into contact, they mutually annihilate - which means that all of their mass is converted into energy. Charge antiparticles - the proton and electron - have opposite electrical charge from their "normal matter" counter parts. So if you have an atom of hydrogen and an atom of anti hydrogen, they would attract one another since their electron shells are oppositely charged.

Answer 2

If two particles of the same mass but some other quantic caracteristics such as electric charge come together an anhiilate each other give rise to a burst of energy in the form of photons or other different particle then we say that the 2 original parrticles are anti "each other" that is, one of them is the anti-matter of the other.

Answer 3

Just as how matter is made up of particles, antimatter is made up of antiparticles. For each particle existing, there is its corresponding antiparticle. In the same way, for each matter existing, then it has its corresponding antimatter. More ofthen than not, these are those with an opposite charge, but other properties also play a part in determining it. When matter and its antimatter come together, pair annihilation occurs. The two combust (ie destroy each other) and form energy.

Answer 4

In particle physics, antimatter extends the concept of the antiparticle to matter, wherein if a particle and its antiparticle come into contact with each other, the two annihilate or cause the equivalent to a nuclear explosion, similar to nuclear fission —that is, they may both be converted into other particles with equal energy in accordance with Einstein's equation E = mc2. This gives rise to high-energy photons (gamma rays) or other particle–antiparticle pairs. The resulting particles are endowed with an amount of kinetic energy equal to the difference between the rest mass of the products of the annihilation and the rest mass of the original particle-antiparticle pair, which is often quite large.

Answer 5

Its example is a positron. The electron has a certain mass and charge but the positron has same mass but a positive charge. When such two perticles come together they annihilate each other.

Answer 6

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