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In 1996, physicists created an anti-atom of hydrogen. In such an atom, which is the antima...

In 1996, physicists created an anti-atom of hydrogen. In such an atom, which is the antimatter equivalent of an ordinary atom, the electric charges of all the component particles are reversed. Thus, the nucleus of an anti-atom is made of an antiproton, which has the same mass as a proton but bears a negative charge, and the electron is replaced by an anti-electron (also called a positron) with the same mass as an electron but bearing a positive charge. Would you expect the energy levels, emission spectra, and atomic orbitals of an antihydrogen atom to be different from those of a hydrogen atom? What would happen if an anti-atom of hydrogen collided with a hydrogen atom?

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