Can Antiparticles Collide with Each Other and Create Energy?

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Now it is common knowledge that antiparticles destroy particles on collision, and release the same amount of energy as if the masses of the two particles were combined and plugged into E=mc^2. But what about an antiparticle colliding with another antiparticle? Would they have the same effect on collision, or would they bounce off of each other like two normal particles?
 
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1. the collision of two "normal" particles doesn't necessarily result to them bouncing off... it's way more interesting than that (eg the collision of quarks in protons at LHC).
2. If an antiparticle collided with an antiparticle you could get similar results as for particles (as Orodruin said).
 
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