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Why can an x ray travel through your body but visible light can not?
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∙ 13y ago
The simple answer is 'they do.'
If you were to hold a piece of paper up to direct sunlight, you would be able to the sunlight coming through the paper. The paper is opaque but not completely so, some light does get through. If you were to put a piece of glass on top of this piece of paper you would see it too. Even though glass is transparent to visible light it still has refractive and reflective properties that effect the light that falls on it.
The same is true for x-rays. Flesh and bone is opaque to x-rays but not completely so. Shining x-rays on a limb will show something of the things in it.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoOnly some X-rays are okay because the body does not use the electrical amplitude of the X-rays but too many of them can cause cancer. The elecrtical amplitude means how high the wave of an electric current is.
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∙ 13y agoWave length and frequency. In light also is reflected,our bodies have density and skin which is pigmented allowing the light to be absorbed. X-ray's are more of magnetic field or radioactive and respond to bodies electric energy, atoms of which we are composed,its cellular to bones to brain.
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∙ 14y agoafter having a certain ammount of xrays like alot of them your doctor will know your limit but anyways after that they can get dangerous and damage cells and or cause cancer
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