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Wow! Teen builds homemade x-ray machine, tries it out on his hand... Oh wait... He ends up with radioactive burns

Posted June 9th, 2009, 08:04 AM by Admin - 5 replies Post to Facebook Bookmark and Share

Well it is still kind of impressive I guess...

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Schoolboy gets burns while testing homemade X-ray machine

Moscow schoolboy has got radioactive burns while testing a homemade X-ray machine, Russian news agency RosBalt reports.

He was at home when he scanned his right hand to check the self-made device. Three days later he noticed that the skin on his hand had became flushed and covered with big ray tubes.

Moscow doctors said that the boy had third- and forth-degree radioactive burns. Thanks to timely action on their part the boy has retained full use of his right hand.

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Old Posted June 9th, 2009, 08:33 AM

This is why tv shows say "Do not try this at home kiddies"
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Old Posted June 9th, 2009, 10:02 AM

Wow. *Puts away home made xray machine* Glade that didn't happen to me.
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Old Posted June 9th, 2009, 05:43 PM

He was pretty dumb to test it on himself. o_x;
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Old Posted June 9th, 2009, 06:11 PM

Wow. o.o;;

But what are "big ray tubes?" -googles-
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Old Posted June 10th, 2009, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Ginia~ View Post
Wow. o.o;;

But what are "big ray tubes?" -googles-
They mean big x-ray tubes, which are hollow tubes (and by hollow, I mean a complete vacuum) that produce X-rays. The big tubes produced more electromagnetic radiation than was safe to expose to skin.
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