on 2/10/02 10:41 am, Donn Haven Lathrop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I sit at my laptop for atleast 8 hours a day and a friend mentioned I > was probably getting zapped by radiation. > Do I actually need one?<< > > Nope. LCD's are radiation free. The voltages involved aren't high > enough--as in 20++ kilovolts--to create any sort of rays. You likely > pick up more radiation on the way to work. > > An X-ray machine fires electrons at a target at very high voltages, and > X-rays are generated when the electrons slam into the target. A CRT has > much the same effect in that electrons are fired at either a shadowmask > or grille. But they aren't specifically designed to create X-rays, they > just sorta do at a very low level, because it's the nature of the beast. > > Give your friend an aluminum beanie. :-D
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