Tape is X-treme
Today I was reading tech news and i came across an interesting article, Scotch tape peeled off in a vacuum will emit large amounts of X-rays. Some scientist in UCLA came across that discovery but i know not how they did, but actually they weren’t the first, more than 50 years ago a group of Russian scientists found evidence of X-rays being emitted when sticky tape was peeled off a glass surface. The X-rays are emitted approximately 2 thousandths of an inch from where the tape was being peeled off, and it came in rapid pulses of about a billionth of a second long. The actual X-rays were produced by electrons flowing from the roll and flying to the sticky side of the tape, and when they hit the tape, they slowed down and emitted the X-rays in massive portions (you do not have to worry about getting any exposure in the air, but try and avoid peeling tape in a vacuum chamber whilst unprotected). The scientists believe that small, cheep X-ray devices could potentially be made for paramedics, or for areas where electricity and money is scarce. Those scientists have put in for a patient on devises like that.
I think that if this technology could be implemented cheaply it could potentially help MANNY fields, for example, combat medics, paramedics, medical aid technicians, peace core volunteers, and small hospitals in 3rd world countries. The lack of a need of lots of electricity and complex machines and clean rooms would make taking X-rays cheep, quick, and portable, opening many medical possibilities that weren’t open before.
Well that’s it for my ramblings this week
