The Sticky-Tape X-Ray Machine
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When pulled apart, sticky tape generates electromagnetic waves through simple friction. Now, as reported this week in the journal Nature, UCLA's Carlos Camara and Juan Escobar have discovered that in a vacuum, sticky tape also sends out strong enough x-rays to image your finger. Check out their bizarre sticky tape unpeeler, and see the machine take an actual x-ray image of a finger.
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I wish I could discover things like this by myself.
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@Gunner3210 Is there any reason you're starting arguments over semantics on the internet? Attention? Boredom? I'm sorry my comment offended you, perhaps when those hormones settle down you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
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@antmanmax1 x-rays short out? Wow that is some nice physics right there. You could very well be the next Einstein.
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You have same action splitting bananas !
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they need to try 2 inch wide packing tape
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very low energy xrays.. but a lot of them.
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lol the comment was a joke but regardless people can't seem to read sarcasm either way in theory it could in fact create enough radiation to cause cancer though its a small amount released direct exposure to that for say 2 years solid could cause cancerous cells to develop but it's highly unlikely the conditions would ever exist to create said scenario
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Not tape by itself, and in any case you'd have to unroll a LOT of tape before you got any more from it than you get from sunlight anyway.
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to get xrays the tape must be unrolled under vacuum. normal atmosphere tape peeling only offers visible light.
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what is that machine that he puts his hand on called?
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It happens in a vacuum, as long as you don't work in space you'll be fine. Also, if you bite a hard mint lifesaver the same thing happens, you can even see the spark if you get in a dark room and crush it with a pair of pliers or whatever. SCIENCE!
homologygroup 2 years ago 9
Okay, place tape on a surface (duct or scotch work well) Turn the lights out, and pull as fast and as hard as you can, you will see sparks. X-rays are also created, but the pressure and the vacuum of the air around you makes them short out and dissappear. In this experiment, there is a vaccum which stops the x-rays from shorting out, moving a few inches outward, they then do a normal x-ray setup and voila, a cheap x-ray.
antmanmax1 3 years ago 8