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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
Aren't you going to want to store any antimatter as ions/charged particles anyway, for confinement purposes? A chunk of solid isn't going to stay together unless it's close to neutral...
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If the antimatter is diamagnetic (like most things are), very strong magnetic fields can levitate and confine it.
If the antimatter is superconducting (either through being manufactured as a room temperature superconductor or being made as something like niobium-tin and cooled to cryogenic temperatures) the confinement becomes much stronger.
If the antimatter is a ferromagnet, you can get strong magnetic confinement but you need active controls to keep it levitated.
If the antimatter is conductive, you can levitate it with induced currents, either with oscillating your magnetic field or constantly moving the antimatter past a static magnet array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation
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