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?

Question

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?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Things are also made of atoms , at this scale it is like trying to cut glitter
It’s easier to move it out of the way than cutting it , so things just move out of the way
You can’t even cut most monomers (molecules that aren’t part of chains ,some such as polyethylene oxide are chains so you can cut the chain lengthwise)