Yes it would. But you wouldn't get Anthrax.
I think these things are only being used in government receiving offices.
Tom
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 13:39, Mike Cormier <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "RE: [OM] Irradiated mounted slides" saying:
> Ok... so should I be worrying about shipping gear in the mail? For example,
> wuold this bombardment technique destroy the chemicals that make up lens
> coatings? What about circuitry in bodies & winders? Will this bombardment
> decompose the prism foam in my OM's?????????
>
> SNIP
>
> >It's *not* microwave and it's *not* X-Ray (which won't kill certain types
> >of spores and other biological weapons). It's electron beam bombardment.
> >This is not simple electro-magnetic radiation. This is high energy
> >particle **bombardment** that blows chemical compounds (molecules) into
> >pieces (elements and smaller molecules). Think in terms of an atomic
> >version of a heavy, very large bore machine gun. Especially susceptible
> >are long organic molecular chains because of their size and fragility when
> >bombarded by atomic particles (what do you think causes radiation sickness?
> > similar atomic particle bombardment and it has the same effect). Since
> >polymers are also long chains it also rips them to shreds, and since it's
> >electrons with the associated high energy electro-magnetic fields around
> >them, it is also highly destructive to micro-electronics.
>
> SNIP
>
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