• @BloodSlut
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    311 year ago

    Not only does it exist, but bananas give off a fair bit of antimatter due to their decaying potassium isotopes.

    Allegedly, im not smart enough to verify it

      • @marcos
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        51 year ago

        AFAIK, yes.

        There are some very small differences between matter and anti-matter, but I don’t think any of them affect radioactivity.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Bananas produce antimatter, but just barely. The main radioactive material in bananas is Potassium-40. A banana is about 0.358% potassium in all. About 0.012% of naturally occurring potassium is the radioactive Potassium-40. Only 0.001% of all radioactive decay events in postassium-40 produce an antiparticle (a positron).

      An average banana produces a single positron about every 75 minutes.

        • @Redditiscancer789
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          1 year ago

          You kid but as a kid when I learned about potatoes and lemon batteries I was like “SCALE THIS UP NOW!”

          …if only…

      • @scarabic
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        21 year ago

        That’s fucking awesome.

      • @postmateDumbass
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        81 year ago

        We need a Far Side where ape scientists are colliding two bannanas at high speed