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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.020140.24081@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 02:01:40 GMT
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- Others said
- # X-rays will wipe out unexposed and unprocessed film.
-
- I'm sort of wondering about this.....
-
- You see, I, on occasion, need to xray things mechanical. While
- I've had a good safety program, and I understand the physics, I don't
- know a lot about the film characterics. I just use it, you see.
-
- Anyhow, I was using a Golden Inspector, a nice cold-cathode box. It
- pulses. You typically clamp the 8x10" Poloroid X-ray film into a holder
- that has a piece of phosphorescent material. It glows when struck,
- exposing the film. Then you process the film and look at the results.
-
- Anyhow, I was in a situation where I could not fit the plate holder
- where needed. So, like a chump, I just used the film, and ran the
- exposure up from 30 pulses to 100.
- Nothing.
- 500 pulses
- Nothing.
- 999
- Nothing.
- 999, 3 times (the maximum for the Inspector until a 15 min cooldown)
- Not..a...thing....
-
- So how sensitive IS film to X-rays, anyhow?
-
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