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How would an amount of antimatter be measured for sale?

Asked by talljasperman (21919points) January 13th, 2015

Do you charge by the negative ounce, or some other way?

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Here2_4's avatar

By the amount of matter displaced.

ragingloli's avatar

Antimatter has positive mass. You measure it just as you would regular matter.

rojo's avatar

I would imagine it would be sold in non-kgs, except in the US where you would purchase it by the non-ozs.

jerv's avatar

In most sci-fi I’ve read, it’s still measured in grams or (less often) kilograms. However, current technology is only capable of producing a few atoms at a time, so we currently measure anti-hydrogen quantities in atoms, especially since it’d take ~6.02*10^23 atoms to make a gram.

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