How to make X-Rays: First, get some Scotch Tape. Newslink

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

I’ll be damned. Scotch Tape can made radiation! So says UCLA Scientists!
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists’ own fingers

It is not, in fact, dangerous.

“At some point we were a little bit scared,” says Juan Escobar, a member of the research team. But he and his co-workers soon realized that the X-rays were only emitted when the kit was used in a vacuum. “We don’t want to scare people from using Scotch tape in everyday life,” Escobar adds.

It may be able to trigger nuclear fusion reactions.

Damn.

Duck tape really is essential to National Defense!:eek:

[Acid_Lamp]

This is why I love the Dope.

Isn’t it amazing that such a small, simple, and inexpensive reaction could produce so much energy?

[Flander]

That’s the coolest thing I’ve read in a while.

[CalMeacham]

Damn. I’ve known since I was a kid that pulling tape can generate light (Take some electrical tape into a dark closet and yank it, and watch where the tape is sepasrating. Better still, use friction tape). But i never considered that it might work at wavelengths as short as X-rays. I’ll have to keep an eye on this, to make sure somebody’s not getting carried away.

[Sunspace]

Wow.

I’ll never be able to wrap anything again without thinking of this.

[Projammer]

Going to shed a whole new light on Christmas.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@Projammer

Going to shed a whole new light on Christmas.

Gonna shed a whole new light on your innards, too.