How do objects made of many different molecules (eg. an Apple) stay together and not fall apart into piles of powders and liquids?

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How do objects made of many different molecules (eg. an Apple) stay together and not fall apart into piles of powders and liquids?

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there’s a thing called the strong nuclear force, also called the strong nuclear interaction, is the strongest of the four fundamental forces of nature.

it’s 6 thousand trillion trillion trillion (that’s 39 zeroes after 6) times stronger than the force of gravity, and that’s because it binds the fundamental particles of matter together to form larger particles. It holds together the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and part of the strong force also keeps the protons and neutrons of an atom’s nucleus together.

all of this in conjuction works to make things be *things* and not a soupy mess of atomic gunk