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Ever heard of a Plasma gun? Or pressurized water cutting? Heck Lasers do the same thing.

In every case, it’s really a collision between different particles at various energy levels, leading to different results.

Take an extremely fast neutron and collide it with an atom, and you could alter the chemical composition of the atom/end up with a different element (basic principle of breeder reactors). Fascinating stuff.