X rays
- Created by: Najeeha
- Created on: 17-05-14 13:39
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- X-Rays
- Uses
- Looking at bones in the body
- security scanners to view internal structures of objects
- art historians to see if a painting has been painted on top of another one
- Sources
- stars and some types of nebula
- X ray machine works by firing concentrated beams of electrons at a target
- Dangers
- Cell muation leading to cancer
- Damage cells or cause cell death
- Precautions
- Have as few X rays as possible and exposure hould be of shortest time possible
- radiographers must stand behind a screen and wear leadlined clothing
- Uses
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