When you cut something, isn’t there a chance that you will cut an atom and there will be an explosion?
In: Physics
Even if you did, there wouldn’t be an explosion. Splitting atoms lighter than iron takes more energy than gets released. Even the fission of a single Uranium or Plutonium atom releases only a very small amount of energy. A quick estimate is that the fission of roughly 100 billion Uranium atoms would release enough energy to heat a gram of water by 1 degree Celsius
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