Prrkitty
10-24-2008, 03:49 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/22/scotch.tape.xray/index.html
Quote: It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Quote 2: Escobar noted that no X-rays are produced in the presence of air. You need to work in a vacuum -- not exactly an everyday situation.
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Wow! Something we use all the time, scotch tape, could do an x-ray of our fingers... that is *IF* we were in a vacuum.
Very interesting...
Quote: It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Quote 2: Escobar noted that no X-rays are produced in the presence of air. You need to work in a vacuum -- not exactly an everyday situation.
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Wow! Something we use all the time, scotch tape, could do an x-ray of our fingers... that is *IF* we were in a vacuum.
Very interesting...