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Can You Split An Atom With A Knife. If your sheet of metal was one atom thick it. By removing a proton from the atom, rutherford and his team had in fact converted nitrogen to oxygen, and in a sense, became the first alchemists. So you cannot break bonds or chop up atoms with a knife. Moreover, by chipping a proton off a nitrogen nucleus with an alpha particle, his group was also the first to deliberately split an atom. You can hit a small atom with a larger one. It simply puts so much. There's no cutting in splitting an atom. Having a knife with a one atom thick edge would dull the second you touched it to something. Even the sharpest blade is still several atoms wide. The reason is because atoms are very small. And the electric charge of the knife atoms would repel. A normal knife doesn't cut, at all, at the atomic level. If you want to break atoms apart, you need a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator or something like that. No, it doesn't take much energy to split an atom. The knife won't do it, unless you can.

You can hit a small atom with a larger one. Neutrons just work better than nuclei as fission is caused by capture. Having a knife with a one atom thick edge would dull the second you touched it to something. A normal knife doesn't cut, at all, at the atomic level. Even the sharpest blade is still several atoms wide. Moreover, by chipping a proton off a nitrogen nucleus with an alpha particle, his group was also the first to deliberately split an atom. If you use a sharp blade, you concentrate the energy you bring on a few chemical bonds, and it's easier to break them. And the electric charge of the knife atoms would repel. No, it doesn't take much energy to split an atom. The knife won't do it, unless you can.

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Can You Split An Atom With A Knife If your sheet of metal was one atom thick it. And the electric charge of the knife atoms would repel. If your sheet of metal was one atom thick it. So you cannot break bonds or chop up atoms with a knife. You can hit a small atom with a larger one. A normal knife doesn't cut, at all, at the atomic level. Neutrons just work better than nuclei as fission is caused by capture. No, it doesn't take much energy to split an atom. There's no cutting in splitting an atom. It simply puts so much. Moreover, by chipping a proton off a nitrogen nucleus with an alpha particle, his group was also the first to deliberately split an atom. If you want to break atoms apart, you need a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator or something like that. The knife won't do it, unless you can. Even the sharpest blade is still several atoms wide. By removing a proton from the atom, rutherford and his team had in fact converted nitrogen to oxygen, and in a sense, became the first alchemists. See here for some information about sharpening blades.