Meanings
- particleuncountablenatural sciencesThe antiatom form of cobalt.
It is believed that the same experiment with anticobalt nuclei would have the exact opposite result.
1996, Robert Ehrlich (physicist), What If You Could Unscramble an Egg?, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 1622 more examples
Of course, we have not been able to test the validity of the CP conservation using anticobalt, although other experiments have been conducted to show that it is preserved to a high degree.
1991, G. D. Coughlan, J. E. Dodd, The Ideas of Particle Physics: An Introduction for Scientists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70For example, in the well-known Wu experiment arguing from the observed asymmetry of Co⁶⁰-decay electrons (without the experiments on anticobalt nuclei!) it followed that charge parity was not conserved.
2013 [1965], Lev Okun, Weak Interaction in Elementary Particles: International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 46
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