X-ray film, just like in the hospital/doctor's office.
The big machine generates X-rays, the white metal plates mounted on a stand or placed under the table contain the film that catches the x-rays after they pass through your body.
When tape is pulled off the roll, electrons make the jump between the roll and the strand of tape. When they slow down they emit X-rays.
BUT, this only occurs in a VACUUM.
You are safe so long as you aren't in a vacuum, which is hard for most of us to actually pull off unless we are astronaughts with rolls of tape in our pockets.
This is a great thing cause people without electricity could realisticly create X-rays of broken bones in children. My only worry is the amount of protection needed to keep from being sterilized.
Umm... by this, "... researchers at UCLA peeled scotch tape at 1.18 inches per second in a vacuum chamber and found that X-ray pulses were emitted by the process." Doesn't it mean that the radiation was emitted by the tape-peeling process?
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Wait, how do they get the X-ray then. I mean does the image show up on the tape of what?
No, they still need to use film to record the image. triboluminescence along those lines.
X-ray film, just like in the hospital/doctor's office.
The big machine generates X-rays, the white metal plates mounted on a stand or placed under the table contain the film that catches the x-rays after they pass through your body.
When tape is pulled off the roll, electrons make the jump between the roll and the strand of tape. When they slow down they emit X-rays.
BUT, this only occurs in a VACUUM.
You are safe so long as you aren't in a vacuum, which is hard for most of us to actually pull off unless we are astronaughts with rolls of tape in our pockets.
This is a great thing cause people without electricity could realisticly create X-rays of broken bones in children. My only worry is the amount of protection needed to keep from being sterilized.
Umm... by this, "... researchers at UCLA peeled scotch tape at 1.18 inches per second in a vacuum chamber and found that X-ray pulses were emitted by the process." Doesn't it mean that the radiation was emitted by the tape-peeling process?
I can't wait to try this inside my Dyson
There's a law office party somewhere tonight. I just hope 3M's defence gets to those cosmonauts fist.
@ Flashpoint
"...we are astronaughts..."
LOL at your misspeling, naughty astroboy! :)))
Won't it take at least some electricity to make a good vacuum? Don't think a handpump will be effective enough.
Your handpump is busy doing something else...