| Peter Bowditch 2006-06-26, 4:28 pm |
| "Rich" <joshew@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
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>"Will Ketcher" <will_ketcher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1151333134.922737.130600@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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>Medical imaging, i.e.; X-ray, uses far more silver world-wide than common
>photography. But that, too is rapidy shifting to digital. I expect the price
>of silver to come down as a result.
And the silver on the film is really a colloid (which is why it looks
black). It makes you wonder why hospitals don't just get patients to
eat their x-rays after the radiologist has finished. Surely this would
cure whatever was wrong with them. It would also solve waste disposal
problems.
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