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X-rays made from Scotch tape

Posted October 23, 2008 9:14 AM

From Boing Boing:

UCLA physicists demonstrated that if you pull off a piece of Scotch tape inside a vacuum chamber, the tape releases enough X-rays to image bones through skin. Grad student Juan Escobar and his colleagues managed to make an X-ray of a thumb using the technique. (Composite image, including the thumb X-ray, below.) Apparently, Russian scientists reported fifty years ago that the act of peeling sticking tape can emit X-rays, but the new research confirms the early results. The latest experiments are presented in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

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10/23/2008 11:23 AM

BZ

I believe this a rare example of how to make static electricity usable

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10/23/2008 3:12 PM

So thats how my girlfriend know what I get her for birthday, christmas and such occasions... ........I'm using duct tape from now on to wrap my presents.

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10/24/2008 8:32 AM

Bizzare - Russian scientists find it first, do nothing with it, 50 years go by before it's investigated further, and in the meantime, 3-M isn't capitalizing on it somehow?

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10/24/2008 2:32 PM

Should I wear a lead apron next time I wrap a gift?

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10/24/2008 3:38 PM

Leadenhosen! Nothing less would be appropriate. (Or maybe that should be "nothing would be less appropriate"?)

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10/24/2008 4:48 PM

Leadenhosen!

Brilliant! LOL! Thanks, that cheered me up.

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10/24/2008 4:53 PM

Ah, my work here is done!

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10/24/2008 8:52 PM

Only 50 years to verify a Russian report --- must be a record!
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11/07/2008 9:58 PM

Well, in my lifetime I must have been exposed to plenty of such Xrays.

I first noted the triboluminescence back in the early 1950's when using the then "Insulation Tape" which was impregnated cloth tape called "Empire Tape".

For those interested, and who sleep under polyester sheets in a low-humidity bedroom, if the sheets/blankets are removed quickly there is also the triboluminescence effect, along with high static charges.

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