Has antiwater ever been discovered or created? How?

Question

Not antimatter. I know that has been created. I've read that 1 drop of antiwater mixed with 1 drop of regular water is equivalent to the power of 10 million gallons of gasolene.

Answer 1

I'd say no. Anti-particles are rare/unstable enough as it is

Answer 2

I highly doubt it, antiwater is the antimatter equivalent of water. I'm sure that if one drop of it is combined with 1 drop of normal water it'll create a tremendous energy release. That's because it'll be a perfect mass to energy conversion, E = mc^2.

However antimatter is extremely difficult to make, and is even more difficult to contain. The reason being is that it has to be in a magnetic bottle that's been purged of any and all matter. A perfect vacuum as it were, otherwise the antimatter would collide with the small amount of matter and become pure energy.

In the future as our technology progresses we might be able to create antimatter in greater quantities, but for now we're lucky if we can create even a couple of molecules of it, let alone enough to create a drop of anti-water...

Answer 3

Antiwater? Antimatter, yes, but what is antiwater?

The water molecule is two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Inside those atoms are protons. If you put one of those protons in a linear accelerator (atom smasher) and accelerated it close to the speed of light and hit another proton with it coming in the opposite direction with the same velocity, the resulting "wreckage" could yield a gamma ray. A gamma ray interacting with an atom (I think) can produce the supersymmetric partner of an electron, a positron. A positron is antimatter. Antimatter has been produced in laboratories.

Answer 4

Antiwater is a theoretical anti-molecular form of antimatter. It's made of antihydrogen and antioxygen. Those antiatoms are made of antiprotons and antineutrons in the nucleus and orbiting postitons (anti-electrons).

The closest that scientists have come to what you ask is to make antihydrogen (the simplest anti-atom) by binding an antiproton to a positron in flight. It was uncontained, so annihilated a few nanoseconds later when it hit the wall. That's the state of the art.

Answer 5

Only a few anti particles have been created. It would be very difficult to create an anti-water (two anti hydrogen and one anti-oxygen) molecule.

I think you would be correct about the drop of anti-water. If we created an entire drop of anti-water, that drop plus a drop of regular water could be combined and completely transform into energy.

Let's say a drop of water = 1/10 of one milliliter which is 1/10 of a gram. Two drops would be 0.2 grams.

Lets solve e=mc^2 where m = 0.2 grams and c is the speed of light.
e = (0.2g)((3)(10^8)m/s))^2
e = (0.2g)(9)(10^16)m^2/s^2
e = (1.8)(10^16)(g)m^2/s^2
e = (1.8)(10^13)(kg)m^2/s^2
e = (1.8)(10^13)J
e = (5)(10^6) kilowatt-hours

Gasoline's energy density is about 44 MJ/kg
So now we translate (1.8)(10^13)J into gallons of gasoline.
(1.8)(10^13)J
(1.8)(10^7)MJ
(1.8)(10^7)/(44) kg of gasoline
(4.1)(10^5) kg of gasoline
144623 gallons of gasoline.

Therefore 1 drop of anti-water plus 1 drop of regular water would produce as much energy as 144623 gallons of gasoline.

Answer 6

give it another 10-30 years