When you cut something, isn’t there a chance that you will cut an atom and there will be an explosion?

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When you cut something, isn’t there a chance that you will cut an atom and there will be an explosion?

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No. The thing you’re cutting with is also made of atoms so the size of the blade is far too wide on an atomic scale to actually cut an atom. Even a sharp blade edge will be tens of thousands of atoms across.

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