This particle system with Molecular Add-on explodes even though there seems to be more than enough space between the particles.
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Sign up to join this communityit is because you still turned on the normal velocity:
change it to zero and it works.
by the way: whenever physics / simulation is going on you should apply your scale...which you didn't for your instance cube.