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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
Would an anti-banana give off normal matter?
Does it matter?
I don't think it would antimatter
Argument anihilated!
AFAIK, yes, you might wanna look into β+- and β־-decay
AFAIK, yes.
There are some very small differences between matter and anti-matter, but I don't think any of them affect radioactivity.
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.
Brb. Making a fruit-based matter-antimatter annihilation power plant.
You kid but as a kid when I learned about potatoes and lemon batteries I was like "SCALE THIS UP NOW!"
...if only...
El psy kongroo
We need a Far Side where ape scientists are colliding two bannanas at high speed
They say if you microwave bananas, you will get green gel bananas
^dont ^actually ^try ^that