Is scotch tape also an x-ray?

Scientists have discovered that scotch tape can make x-rays. Fifty years ago Russian scientists found that you can get evidence of x-rays from peeling tape off of glass. Now scientists have found that you can get a lot of x-rays if you peel scotch tape in a vacuum; in fact some researchers even made an x-ray of their fingers using that method. The tape did not make any x-rays where there was air though. In a new study the scotch tape was peeled off the roll at about one point two inches per second and pulses of x-rays, that were about one billionth of a second long each, came from very close to where the tape was being peeled. Then the electrons jumped from the top of the tape to the sticky part which was about two thousandths of an inch apart and slowed down. When they slowed down it caused x-rays to come off the tape. People are thinking about how this new discovery could be used to make an inexpensive x-ray machine for where electricity is to expensive or to hard to get. Jamies Hevezi says that this new discovery is "a very interesting idea, and I think it should be carried further in research."