everything is made out of atoms, is there a possibility to cut an atom accidentally with a knife and thus leading to reaction of some sort?

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I am not sure if its a rly dumb question, probably is but I was just wondering isn’t it possible to accidentally, at some point in life cut an atom in half since they are everywhere? If the said scenario is possible what exactly would happen? Can it even happen?

Imagine you are cutting tomatoes, if there is an air atom somewhere in the cutting board, isn’t there a chance even tho its rly small that I will hit exactly the spot by accident and by doing so cut an atom?

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Well, I’m pretty sure that the blade of the knife would be much thicker than the attom in question, so you’d only be able to push it around, but not cut it.

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