• @[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.