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Can wood show up in an xray?
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since it's a solid object, i would say so.  no pun intended :)
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Let me be more specific.  I mean a wood chip...a small piece of wood.  I'm wondering because a friend of mine has a small wood chip or splinter stuck in his arm and he showed me the xray and you can definately see a thin object.  I was just surpirsed that a splinter of wood would show up.
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Any foreign body will show up. My husband is a builder and we have see wood in xrays more than once!
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