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Ryan
Lv 5
Ryan asked in Science & MathematicsChemistry · 3 years ago

Can you reduced atom to nothingness?

As in remove atom from existence.

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  • david
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The answer is NO. OldProf discusses fission, but even that does NOT create nothingness, as he states there are still the daughter atoms to contend with.

    --- Not even a black hole does this. Material, including atoms, is sucked into a blackhole and there is gamma radiation emmitted with the "destruction" of the matter by the blackhole, so again, not nothingness, but gamma rays.

    There us NO process that does will do what you are asking about.

  • 3 years ago

    To nothingness? Not likely. But we can and do reduce atoms into other smaller atoms through nuclear fission. And that let's loose a lot of energy plus the so-called daughter atoms created by the fission.

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