From:	Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject:	Re: aluminum & X-rays
Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 1994 10:07:17 +0100

>Just a note on metal detectors. I went to go pick up my mother from a
>conference in Baltimore, and I walked through the metal detector with a
>Terminator lead minature (anyone play Warhammer 40k? These things are
>huge.), and I did not set it off. Oh, and I think it'd be really kewl
>to put ammo in, say, a can of pop. Seriously, would the aluminum block
>out the x-rays?


I don't think so. Aluminum isn't a very dense material, so it probably
wouldn't block x-rays (of course, it depends on the type of x-rays in
use), especially at the thickness of an average can (a few tenths of
millimeters or something like that).



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