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rbanffy01/18/20252 repliesview on HN

How hot would it need to be do fission a stable isotope of Potassium?


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nick__m01/18/2025

A temperature so hot that the atoms of the potato would violently collide into each other, probably at least tens of millions of degrees and you would need something to confine the potato plasma!

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lostlogin01/18/2025

Maybe it’s fusion and potassium content increases?

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