Fun facts about X-rays! :)

What is an X-ray? (discovered 1895)

It is a form of electromagnetic radiation. In many languages, X-radiation is called "Rontgen radiation" named after the German physicist who discovered it, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen,

He called it X-radiation to denote its unknown nature. This mysterious radiation had the ability to pass through many materials that absorb visible light.

• X-rays also have the ability to knock electrons loose from atoms. Over the years these exceptional properties have made X-rays useful in many fields.

• X-rays are made when negatively charged particles called electrons are fired at a heavy plate made of the metal tungsten. The plate bounces back X-rays.

• X-rays are so energetic that they pass through some body tissues like a light through a net curtain.

• Each kind of tissue lets X-rays through differently. Bones are dense and contain calcium, so they block X-rays and show up white on film. Skin, fat, muscle and blood let X-rays through and show up black on film.

• X-rays are very good at showing up bone defects. So if you break a bone, it will probably be X-rayed.

• An X-ray laser device was proposed as part of the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s, but the first and only test of the device (a sort of laser "blaster", or death ray, powered by a thermonuclear explosion) gave inconclusive results.

• X-ray sources are stars and galaxies that give out X-rays.

• The remnants of supernovae such as the Crab nebula are strong sources of X-rays.

• X-rays are emitted by electrons outside the nucleus, while gamma rays are emitted by the nucleus.

• X-ray star binaries pump out 1000 times as much X-ray radiation as the Sun does.

BIZARRE X-RAYS



This X-ray shows a boy who swallowed magnetic pieces of a block
one at a time. When they hit his stomach, they reconnected.





A nail gun shot six nails into construction worker Isidro Mejia's
head during an April 2004 accident. He not only survived but was
expected at the time to recover fully.



X-rays are very interesting, because of them we are able to cross boundaries, between our body and the flesh. A lot of illnesses have been cured through the help of the x-rays.
But as they say, "what you don't see and feel can also hurt you." Too much exposure to radiation can damage your cells and even cause you cancer then leads to death.
Radiation is cumulative, it never goes away, it is just added until the cell dies or the genetic aberration results in cancer or death.


But it only happens if there is a constant and regular exposure to x-rays.

So let us take care of our health. We don't need to wait 'till we get sick before we act. Though we have the technology to cure almost anything...

"Prevention is still better than cure!"

http://www.ehow.com/video_5112774_side-effects-x_rays_.html#ixzz1W5nIm68P
ray_astro/xrays.html.
http://factspage.blogspot.com/2010/09/x-ray-interesting-facts.html