x-rays from scotch tape?!?!

this is very very cool….very very interesting….come on, what’s in that scotch tape?

Peeling Scotch Tape Powers X-Ray Machine

Peeling a roll of ordinary sticky tape can generate 100 milliwatt pulses of X-rays, enough to capture a human finger on X-ray film, according to a new study by UCLA scientists. …

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Their kit consisted of a vacuum-enclosed machine, reminiscent of a video casette player, that peeled a roll of Photo Safe 3M Scotch tape at a rate of 3 cm per second. …

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This type of energy release is known as triboluminescence — the same principle behind the fun trick of crunching on Wint-O-Green Life Savers to produce blue sparks.

… the idea of peeling tape to emit X-rays was first suggested by Russian scientists in the 1950s…

crazy, no?