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_You_ did #3?! How'd you get access to a blank X-Ray plate? What do you mean by "device" here?

• Tade0 9y ago
  My father used to be a lecturer/chief technician at a university and his field is medical equipment in general(the course he was responsible for was something along the lines of "x-ray devices"), so we had a few of those lying around in the house. By "device" I meant the TV set. I remember hearing an obvious zap as the plate glued itself to the screen which went blank even though the TV seemed to be still on.
  • gknoy 9y ago
    I'm really interested in learning why it would do that. I remember my screen generating some static electricity (e.g. paper would stick), but I would not have expected putting something on the screen to blank the tube. Is it a special property of the x-ray plate? (Is it conductive?) This feels like knowledge that will end up feeling obvious in hindsight. ;)
    • Tade0 9y ago
      To be honest I still have no idea. I know the plate(or actually film) was made of some insulating material, because it accumulated a charge on its surface the same way the screen did. Unfortunately I never got an ELI5, even though I was literally five back then.
      • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
        Was the xray plate like a thin film of plastic with a metalised coating; would act as a large flat capacitor??