why splitting a tiny particle can cause such a devastating blast
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If you push a boulder off of a cliff, you are converting its potential energy to kinetic energy.
Similarly, some nuclei have inherently high potential energy, it’s just not as obvious as a boulder on top of a cliff, but it’s a similar
idea.
If you release that nucleus’s potential energy, you will convert it to other forms of energy, like light/radiation, and other energetic particles (kinetic), which bounce around and cascades down to other forms of energy like heat (molecule vibrations/rotations)
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