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Submission + - X-ray Powers Discovered in Scotch Tape (odt.co.nz)

IAmStrider writes: 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.

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/28565/x-ray-powers-detected-scotch-tape

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