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What is an antineutron?

What is an antineutron? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (physics) The antiparticle corresponding to a neutron.
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The antineutron, although neutral like the neutron, is distinguishable from the neutron because it is composed of two anti-down quarks and one anti-up quark.
Antimatter also exists and so there is an antiproton, an antineutron and an antielectron often called the positron.
Shortly afterward, a different team working on the same accelerator discovered the antineutron.
The antiparticle of an electrically neutral particle may be identical to the particle, as in the case of the neutral pi-meson, or it may be distinct, as with the antineutron.
Each antimatter atom has antielectrons, antiprotons, and antineutrons, except the antiatom of ordinary hydrogen which has no antineutron.
The spinning antineutron, like the ordinary neutron, has a net electric charge of zero, but its magnetic polarity is opposite to that of a similarly spinning neutron.

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