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RE: Digital X-Ray Can Scan Body in 13 Seconds
I assume that the diamonds are not loose, but are
still encased in the ore in which they are found. If
they were that size and loose, how would you find
them? See
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/diamonds/process.html
--- "Mercado, Don" <don.mercado@lmco.com> wrote:
> True, but in a recent issue of National Geographic
> featuring the diamond
> industry, some of those diamonds are so small they
> can fit into the pores of
> a strawberry. The benefit of swallowing ore
> containing strawberry-pore sized
> diamonds is questionable, but the workors are
> desperately poor. With current
> technology, what is the smallest diamond that could
> be resolved on an image
> intensified image?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Jacobus [SMTP:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:39 AM
> > To: Douglas and Shirley Jackson
> > Cc: RADSAFE
> > Subject: Re: Digital X-Ray Can Scan Body in 13
> Seconds
> >
> > An x-ray image shows objects due to differences in
> > density. Water has a density of 1.00, a diamond
> has a
> > density of 3.51, graphite of 2.25, and bone of
> 1.7-2.0
> >
> >
> > --- Douglas and Shirley Jackson
> <g2v13a@SWBELL.NET>
> > wrote:
> > > My I ask the dumb question of the day ?????
> > >
> > > Can you actually see the diamonds (as is
> implied) in
> > > this x-ray ?
> > >
> > > I have seen many foreign object x-rays of the
> > > abdomen over the years and
> > > ... the rings show nicely, but the diamonds
> would
> > > have been missed
> > > without the metal ring.
> > > . . .
> >
> >
> > =====
> > -- John
> > John Jacobus, MS
> > Certified Health Physicist
> > e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
> >
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