{"id":934,"date":"2008-10-25T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-10-25T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:48:29","slug":"superman-already-knew-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/934","title":{"rendered":"Superman Already Knew This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2008\/081022\/full\/news.2008.1185.html\">Sticky tape generates X-rays<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2014 of one of the scientists&#8217; own fingers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only when you do it in a vacuum, though.  Not clear (the concept, not the tape) if that is because the atmosphere degrades the charge buildup on the tape or if the occasional x-rays just scatter in the atmosphere, or some third option or a combination.  I&#8217;ve seen bluish light when I&#8217;ve peeled adhesives before, so the mechanoluminescent properties aren&#8217;t a surprise, but the energy of them is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticky tape generates X-rays 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 \u2014 of one of the scientists&#8217; own fingers Only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/934\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[314,472],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics","tag-mechanoluminescence","tag-sticky-tape-x-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}