User blog comment:DancePowderer/Metaphysical Horticulture/@comment-4889755-20120802053730

So, If, in theory, you were to kill say...Crocodile for example, and you had a fruit on standby, say for example an orange. The power of his devil fruit, would absorb into that orange, enabling the fruit that was once normal, to now become powerfull and no longer an orange but now, it was a Suna Suna No mi.

So. This could open a way that inanimite objects get devil fruit powers. THe WG or whoever, kills whoever has the current devil fruit, and somehow transfers it into the gun or sword or whatever. So, they someone give this object the essence of a fruit, before killing the devil fruit user. So mabey, teach just had a fruit in his coat or something, and then went behind the curtain, waited for Whitebeards devil fruit to leave his body, and then transfer to the fruit in teaches hand. Teach then ate the fruit, and gained the ability to have Whitebeards DF.

But the question is, how does he not explode like Smiley did?