Here’s a fun fact for your cubicle-side coffee chat: That Scotch tape on your desk is good for more than just sticking together pages of a TPS report. Turns out it can also generate X-rays. Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have found that plain old office tape can create enough X-rays to take a hospital-style image. But before you freak out and enter a tape-purging rage, you should know that it can only happen within a vacuum. Sound strange? Read on.
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Weird Science: Peeling Scotch Tape Produces X-Rays
Posted by: JR Raphael October 23, 2008 11:09 AMHere’s a fun fact for your cubicle-side coffee chat: That Scotch tape on your desk is good for more than just sticking together pages of a TPS report. Turns out it can also generate X-rays. Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have found that plain old office tape can create enough X-rays to take a hospital-style image. But before you freak out and enter a tape-purging rage, you should know that it can only happen within a vacuum. Sound strange? Read on.