X-Ray

X-Ray is also called the Roentgen radiation. It is an electromagnetic radiation with the energy ranging from 124 eV to 124 keV. Where this energy can be written in the form of Joules. However, a wave with this much energy can easily pass from transparent to opaque objects.

X-rays were discovered accidentally by German scientist Roentgen in 1895. In 1901, Roentgen was awarded for his great work in this regard.?

X-rays are highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation and have proved to be a very powerful tool to study the crystal structure, in material research, in the radiography of metals and in the field of medical sciences.?

Roentgen discovered that when X-rays are passed through arms and hands or any other body part, they create crystal clear and detailed images of the inner bones.?

Whenever a doctor performs an X-ray of a patient, an x-ray sensitive film is put on one side of his body and then the x-rays are shot through him. While the skin is transparent, the bones are dense and absorb more x-rays (because of the nature of X-rays to cross the opaque object). This is why the impression of bones is left on the x-ray film while the skin remains invisible in the x-ray.

X-rays possess very short wavelengths that vary between 0.03 and 3 nanometers or between 0.02 ? and 100 ?;? however, some x-rays are small like a single atom of an element.?