Materials Science
X-Rays from Scotch Tape: The Physics of Peeling
How peeling ordinary Scotch tape in a vacuum creates electric fields strong enough to generate medical-grade X-rays through Bremsstrahlung.
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How peeling ordinary Scotch tape in a vacuum creates electric fields strong enough to generate medical-grade X-rays through Bremsstrahlung.