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Its not possible to do by any metric. And besides, a chain reaction is needed. A single atom turned into pure kinetic energy wouldn’t be noticeable at all.

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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes, and if I cut a mango, how many billions of atoms is that? So I’d recommend to cut the mango in increments of one angstrom to minimise the chances of a chain reaction happening.

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- LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The force that keeps the nucleus together is much stronger than the force needed to break the inter-atom bonfs. (Blanking on the names right now. Strong and weak forces?)
  
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  - ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, but what if the knife is really sharp?
    
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    LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The knife edge can’t be smaller than an atoms width, so still no.
    
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