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Is This Durability Negation?

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If a chracter uses a gun with plasma ammunition that causes deionization in anything it comes in contact with, does it ignore durability?
 
I want to say yes but I'm not sure; I believe it is causing either cellular or molecular bonds to split so I think it counts.
 
It's basically removing Ions, and causing a burning effectfrom what it seems like (I don't know much about this stuff, but shhhh), so it reasonably seems like Durability Negation in my eyes.
 
https://www.aquaticlife.com/blog/what-is-deionization-and-why-should-i-be-using-it-/

Yes. I am not an expert but here is the general gist.

Deionization is used the removal of minerals, including salt to create something pure, usually water.

Thus, if a human were to be deionized, it would ignore durability since it dries all the salt in their body which is crucial for functioning.

It is not quite 'cellular damage' or even 'atomic destruction' since the atoms are just transferring compounds from one source to another.

However for a human, it would be lethal. You would lose salt, your body would shut down its metabolic process because of lack of salt and as such it 'ignores durability'

Could be missing something, this was a very quick google search.
 
Well, for one thing the question is how it does so. Adding a few electrons to something can probably deionize stuff. You could also deionize something by just telekinetically pulling all ions out. Magnetic fields could maybe do something. Etc. Just per default I wouldn't assume this ignores durability.

The other thing is that the surface of a human, skin etc., doesn't have a lot of ions as far as I am aware. So deionizing it possibly does nothing at all.

Things dissolved in the body water would be often be ions, due to chemical reasons, but that is inside the body and depending on how they are deionized I am not sure if it would do damage. Not too familiar on whether body chemistry depends on the charge of certain stuff in the blood.
 
The question if we can assume that it would work the same way for characters with alien and vastly superior physiology to humans.
 
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