Antibaryon

/ˌæntɪˈbæriɑːn/ noun

In physics, the antimatter counterpart of a baryon, a subatomic particle made of three quarks.

From anti- (against) + baryon (from Greek barys, heavy). Baryon was coined in the 1950s for heavy subatomic particles. Antibaryon emerged from particle physics in the 1950s when scientists discovered antimatter particles.

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