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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.

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Brb. Making a fruit-based matter-antimatter annihilation power plant.

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

…if only…

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That’s fucking awesome.

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