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Antimatter Storage

 

Due to the reactive nature of antimatter with normal matter, it has to be stored in a different way. All contact with the matter counterparts of the stored antimatter must be avoided.

          However it is this specificity that allows a very cunning method to be used to contain it. Generally the federation only uses antimatter hydrogen, which contains one anti-proton and one anti-electron (positron), and all contact with protons and electrons must be avoided. There is one material that antimatter hydrogen can safely come into to contact with, and that is neutronium, as neutronium only contains neutrons, and that the anti-hydrogen does not contain anti-neutrons, no reaction can occur. It is by placing antimatter hydrogen in neutronium (mass-less preferably), that antimatter storage is facilitated, it is easy, and as it is such a strong material for a container, also means the anti-hydrogen, can be stored in its metallic state, allowing far greater fuel density (in metallic form density is in the order of 1.15g/cm^3).

        The cons with this is that container must have backup shielding increase it breaches, and also must have good temperature control as metallic hydrogen is only meta-stable at high temperatures, cooling also reduces the pressure required. Driver coild material cannot be used to chill the compartment as in normal liquid hydrogen, as it would react with the antimatter. Few other types of antimatter are created, if they contain neutrons the above method can not be used, and the antimatter has to be kept separate by containment fields, with very large antimatter atoms neutronium boxes can again be used, as the electron shells around the anti-atom prevent contact with walls of the container, but care has to be taken to avoid ionization which removes these protective electron shells, also the stored material should not collapse into a Bose Einstein state, in which case the nuclei would also be exposed for reaction.
 

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