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>> Last I looked free style had X-ray film.  All film is to some degree
>> sensitive to soft X-rays.
>
>  The secret is: Film "badges" and X-ray plates contain fluorescent
>screens which intercept the X-rays, converting them to light which
>exposes the film.  This increases film sensitivity by another order of
>magnitude, and is difficult to home-build.
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The flouoresent layer is for high energy stuff. If I remember my physics
right the higher the energy of the radiation the less likelyhood of it
exposing
the film. Soft X-rays don't need help.

>> I have been playing with high voltage supplys for 40 years and I am
>> still here to tell the tale.  Safety is a learned skill not a set of
>> incoprehemsible rules.
>
>  I wouldn't put too much emphasis on "learned", at least not in the
>practical sense!
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Would you expound on that some. I was taught safety from before I can
remember. I was tuned loose on my own with a shot gun when I was 12
and a rifle when I was 13. I stand by safety being a personal responsiblity.
I have refused to work on machines I felt weren't safe. Manufactures
software included should make devices as safe as they can. But there is
no way to make safe danimite.

>> It is not societys job to protect me from my self.  It is societys job
>> to protect my neighbors from me.
>
>  You are not "politically correct"!  In my profession, the courts are
>telling us now it is *our* responsibility to protect people from
>themselves!
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Damn right I am not politicly correct.
>
Gordon

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