Re:Why is my dryer radioactive?
by jojobas on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:29AM
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When alpha particles are stopped by anything, secondary x-rays are created. I wonder if airport x-ray machines are sensitive enough to pick that up.
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Re:Why is my dryer radioactive?
by brippalcharrid on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:12AM
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It would probably just appear as faint noise, and then only if it happened to be at wavelengths that the sensors were tuned to detect, and which the machine's signal processors weren't trying to ignore, and if the image processing was designed to draw attention to it.