Meanings
- particleuncountableliteratureThe antiatom form of lithium.
Even unshielded, it would take antilithium or highmatter to cut through the adamantine plate on the dorsal hull.
2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon In White: Book 3, Orion, →ISBN2 more examples
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.
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 194The pinhead contained only a twentieth of a gramme of antilithium, but that's more than sufficient for our purposes.
2009, Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space, Orion, →ISBN
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antilithium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antilithium
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