• @[email protected]
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    329 months 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

      • @768
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        149 months ago

        AFAIK, yes, you might wanna look into β± and β־-decay

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months 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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      229 months 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.

    • @ChickenAndRice
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      49 months ago

      They say if you microwave bananas, you will get green gel bananas

      ^dont ^actually ^try ^that