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Currently antimatter is only used for scientific research as it is very expensive to obtain. In the future antimatter could be used for anything that requires energy such as producing electricity.

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antimatter can be converted into energy perfectly by annihilation with matter the energy from annihilation of 0.5 Kg of anti matter with 0.5 Kg of matter would = 9x1016 J using e=mc2

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