antilithium

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ lithium.

Noun

antilithium (uncountable)

1. (physics, science fiction) The antiatom form of lithium.
   • 1987, Luis W. Alvarez, Discovering Alvarez: Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez with Commentary by His Students and Colleagues, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     Heavy antinuclei, if observed, would also indicate that nucleosynthetic processes are taking place in these antimatter regions, since the usual matter-symmetric cosmologies have no other provision for manufacturing antimatter heavier than antilithium.

   • 2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN:

     The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.

   • 2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN:

     Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.