Re: x-rays from TC capacitors?!!!

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Original poster: scott <scottxs@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>        Fascinating gadget and "only $2500"!  Sort of a soft X-ray tube
> in a TO-5 package.  Not exactly the setup in a "TC capacitor" [does
> require a "vacuum"] but interesting nonetheless.

Thought I'd post it to show that x-rays can come from unlikely sources.
Yes, they've over-priced it, haven't they? Must be selling them to Uncle
Sam.

To get x-rays, you need to accelerate electrons, with high electric
fields, into a high - Z target.

There might be large enough accelerating potentials around sharp edges
at a few kilo-volts, but I doubt the mean-free path (between
decelerating collisions) for electrons is large enough through stp gas,
certainly liquids. Yet, a few might make it, so a very weak emission
wouldn't surprise me too much.

Scott