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Powerful x-rays made from sticky tape

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Uploaded by on Oct 23, 2008

Watch the complete video here: http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/
Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15016?DCMP=youtube
Unwinding a roll of sticky tape produces bursts of X-rays and the energy could even be high enough to trigger nuclear fusion.

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  • omagawd we're doomed.

    xrays in mah tape, Uranium in my granite countertops... Cyanide in my apples. Its just not safe out there I tellz you...

    *Wraps tinfoil round head 10 times then dies of some weird tinfoil poisoning*

  • Yes it is. Just try to unwind an adhesive tape in a dark room. You can see light but need a vaccum chamber to obtain x-rays

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  • Great job! It is really useful for presentation but very hard to control.

  • Fortunately there was no adhesive on BETAMAX...

  • wHEEEEH?! I'ma make tis at home rite NOW. Cook some calamari... Fuck induction ! THIS is 2013 tech.

  • Holy shit! Is that safe?

  • 500 mRads? Holy fuck that's as bad as standing on Chernobyl grounds for an hour! And merely a 10th of the maximum dose permitted for US Rad. workers.

  • @toxlox Wow. Wow. You're a crackhead version of me.

  • @toxlox

    LOL

  • @minami935 photons

    

  • I like this video.

  • This video is very useful for knowledge about whati x ray made from

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