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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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, but what if the knife is really sharp?
  
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  - LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The knife edge can’t be smaller than an atoms width, so still no.
    
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    NoDignity@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You say that until someone pulls the classic prank of swapping all your mango atoms with uranium-235.
    
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