why splitting a tiny particle can cause such a devastating blast
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Think of atoms as grenades. During normal chemical reactions, you are basically just throwing grenades around without pulling the pin. Sure, it’ll hurt more or less depending on how hard you throw it, which is similar to what’s going on normally.
Now when you pull the pin on the grenade, it’ll explode, doing an immense amount of damage.
Now, there’s extremely massive numbers of atoms in a small amount of substance, so it’s like the difference between dropping a swimming pool full of grenades on something, and just bouncing off like balls, or having them all explode.
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