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Christmas could bring with it a new hazard as you wrap your gifts – X-ray-emitting sticky tape.
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 (see videos).
Sticky tape generates X-rays
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"We don't want to scare people from using Scotch tape in everyday life," Escobar adds.
One might debate the wisdom of the chosen title then. But if one desires the story be widely read, it's hard to beat x-ray generating duct tape.
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