We have always been fascinated by listening to a particle known as Antimatter. If you love chemistry a lot and you see the world around you as a periodic table then, every term that is disobeying the laws of chemistry you will fight all day with your friends and teachers till you don't get an answer that satisfies your never ending doubts.
Now antimatter in short is nothing but just a particle that has electrons instead of protons and protons instead of electron. all other properties are same as that of an atom of the same element. The most amazing fact is that this antimatter is not man made, it's naturally made and that too on the Earth's atmosphere. When High-Energy cosmic rays impact on the Earth's atmosphere minute quantities of antimatter are formed but these react with the normal particles around it and annihilate.
Even a big cloud of antimatter has also been found by INTEGRAL satellite. Results say that the cloud is asymmetrical and has the pattern of X-ray binaries i.e binary stars that illuminate in X-rays. These antimatter are also created artificially.
The existence of antiproton was confirmed experimentally in 1995. It was not just an antiproton created on 1995, an antihydrogen was also created at CERN. They created 9 atoms of it. It consisted of a positron and an antiproton. It will cost you $62.5 trillion to prepare 1 gram of antihydrogen, as per NASA on 1999.
Even though these particles are so expensive, it is said that these antimatter can be used for medical use, as a fuel and for creating nuclear weapons. On nuclear fission of 1 kg of antimatter, the energy produced is equal to the amount of energy produced by 43 megatons of TNT which slightly less than the biggest ever man made bomb, Tsar Bomb.
Now antimatter in short is nothing but just a particle that has electrons instead of protons and protons instead of electron. all other properties are same as that of an atom of the same element. The most amazing fact is that this antimatter is not man made, it's naturally made and that too on the Earth's atmosphere. When High-Energy cosmic rays impact on the Earth's atmosphere minute quantities of antimatter are formed but these react with the normal particles around it and annihilate.
Even a big cloud of antimatter has also been found by INTEGRAL satellite. Results say that the cloud is asymmetrical and has the pattern of X-ray binaries i.e binary stars that illuminate in X-rays. These antimatter are also created artificially.
The existence of antiproton was confirmed experimentally in 1995. It was not just an antiproton created on 1995, an antihydrogen was also created at CERN. They created 9 atoms of it. It consisted of a positron and an antiproton. It will cost you $62.5 trillion to prepare 1 gram of antihydrogen, as per NASA on 1999.
Even though these particles are so expensive, it is said that these antimatter can be used for medical use, as a fuel and for creating nuclear weapons. On nuclear fission of 1 kg of antimatter, the energy produced is equal to the amount of energy produced by 43 megatons of TNT which slightly less than the biggest ever man made bomb, Tsar Bomb.
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