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Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape

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Oct 22, 2008 #1

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Dec 11, 2007

Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
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