Can you split an atom?how?

Answer 1

I can't but scientists with the right equipment can. The way they do it is basically get a subatomic particle such as a neutron or electron moving pretty fast through a vacuum, then put a film of the target element in the way, the particle breaks the atom apart a lot like shooting a gun at a cantaloupe.

Answer 2

one way to split an atom is to strip off a bunch of itselectrons with light pulses or with charged plates and then send it to circulate through a curved magnetic field (since the atoms has lost some electrons, it is now charged and charged particles speed up when you put them into a curved magnetic field). When you get the atom going really, really fast, change the field and let the the particle slam into a target. It's like throwing an alarm clock really hard against a wall....the atom smashes open and we see its "insides" come screaming out. We can see it using a special detector called a PARTICLE ACCELERATOR

Answer 3

A Nuclear Particle Accelerator.

Come on folks get a clue.

You split atoms with the constituents of other atoms accelerated to near light speed.

At near light speed an "Electron" (Which if you had 100 trillion of them in your hand you wouldn't even now it) has more mass than a Freight Train!!!!!!!!! CHOO CHOOO!!!!! LOL ;-)

And when it "Smacks" into the Nucleus of an atom "POW"!!!!!!!

Answer 4

Destabilize the nucleus...Typically you bombard the nucleus with either alpha particles or neutrons and if the nucleus absorbs the extra particles and reaches an unstable state it will break apart and if you create more particles than you started with you'll have a sustainable reaction.

Answer 5

Enhance its natural excitement electronically. Or, use neutrons from a neutronically unstable substance such as uranium to destroy its own atoms, its doing it all the time on its own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom

Answer 6

you can but i'm not exactly how they do it. research the atom bomb. that is all spliting of an atom and so is nuclear energy that we use to power our homes and businesses with.

Answer 7

chemical reactions
you cant use little tweezers to rip them apart
that's how the atomic bomb was created

Answer 8

no. "chemicals can't be split into a simpler form by chemical means" something lyk dat...

Answer 9

with a particle accelerator

Answer 10

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