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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The reason why it’s called antimatter is because the polarity of the nucleus and electrons are reversed. There are also antineutrons that have a neutral charge. It all still has mass, but will obliterate upon contact with regular matter

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      There are also anti neutrons that have a neutral charge

      Expanding onto this, it raises the question: how is a neutron different to an anti-neutron?

      A neutron can be though of a particle composed of 2 down and 1 up quarks and lot of gluon’s that keep everything together. The gluon is its own antiparticle, so the antineutron has 2 anti-down quarks, 1 anti-up quarks and gluons. This way it becomes a different particle despite also being of neutral charge.