Scotch Tape Could Lead to Field X-Rays

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Yeah, I'm not joking. The Washington Post Reports the following:

Scotch Tape Can Emit X-Rays

U.S. researchers have discovered that Scotch tape emits X-rays if it's peeled off its roll in a vacuum, a finding that may lead to the development of inexpensive, portable X-ray machines for paramedics or for use in remote locations.

For the study, a machine was used to peel Scotch tape off a role in a vacuum chamber at a rate of about 3 centimeters per second. This produced rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth second long, from the area where the tape was coming off the role, theAssociated Pressreported. The researchers even managed to make an X-ray image of a finger.

The study was published Thursday in the journalNature.

"We were very surprised," researcher Juan Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, told theAP. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."

Escobar noted that Scotch tape only produces X-rays in a vacuum, so normal use of the tape poses no health hazard.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...02301585_2.html

Ah, the future is coming. From such unlikely places.

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Yeah, I'm not joking. The Washington Post Reports the following:

Scotch Tape Can Emit X-Rays

U.S. researchers have discovered that Scotch tape emits X-rays if it's peeled off its roll in a vacuum, a finding that may lead to the development of inexpensive, portable X-ray machines for paramedics or for use in remote locations.

For the study, a machine was used to peel Scotch tape off a role in a vacuum chamber at a rate of about 3 centimeters per second. This produced rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth second long, from the area where the tape was coming off the role, theAssociated Pressreported. The researchers even managed to make an X-ray image of a finger.

The study was published Thursday in the journalNature.

"We were very surprised," researcher Juan Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, told theAP. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."

Escobar noted that Scotch tape only produces X-rays in a vacuum, so normal use of the tape poses no health hazard.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...02301585_2.html

Ah, the future is coming. From such unlikely places.

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