What are xrays used for?

Answer 1

Doctors use x-rays to check your body for broken bones.
X-rays help look through the tissue to the actual bone. if there were no x-rays, doctors wouldn't be positive on broken bones or any sort of tears. X-rays can show the bone clearly, helping the doctor see something that needs to be seem.
The main usage for x-ray waves are medical. They can be used to view into structures of the body without having to resort to surgery. X-ray waves also help dentists to get a better look at your tooth structure and fillings :)
The uses of x-rays are

To examine bone without opening up the body

To look at teeth under the gum

that is really it tbh

Nick Nack
The most common use is in hospitals.
X-ray allows doctor to look inside bodies w/o cutting them open. Real helpful if you want to look for broken bones.
Looking inside people - seeing broken bones and after having a "barium meal" you can veiw intestines.

tooth decay

Airport security for checking luggage

astronomers also use them
X-rays are able to penetrate through denser materials than light, and thus can be used to "see through" objects.

This technique is used in medicine, most commonly for creating images of a person's bones and teeth. It is also used in electronics manufacture to look for imperfections inside printed circuit boards and microchips. It is also seen in airports, when carry-on luggage is scanned by x-ray to search for potentially dangerous materials. (Something like a gun will cast a distinct image, as the metal blocks the x-rays from passing through. This creates an x-ray shadow which is picked up by the detector, much like the way something blocking light would.)
X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have awavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3×1016 Hz to 3×1019 Hz) and energies in the range 100 eV to 100 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma rays. In many languages, X-radiation is called Röntgen radiation, after Wilhelm Röntgen,[1] who is usually credited as its discoverer, and who had named it X-radiation to signify an unknown type of radiation.[2] Correct spelling of X-ray(s) in the English language includes the variants x-ray(s) and X ray(s).[3] XRAY is used as the phonetic pronunciation for the letter x.

X-rays up to about 10 keV (10 to 0.10 nm wavelength) are classified as "soft" X-rays, and from about 10 to 120 keV (0.10 to 0.01 nm wavelength) as "hard" X-rays, due to their penetrating abilities.[4]

Hard X-rays can penetrate some solids and liquids, and all uncompressed gases, and their most common use is to image of the inside of objects in diagnostic radiography andcrystallography. As a result, the term X-ray is metonymically used to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself. By contrast, soft X-rays hardly penetrate matter at all; the attenuation length of 600 eV (~2 nm) X-rays in water is less than 1 micrometer.[5]

The distinction between X-rays and gamma rays has changed in recent decades. Originally, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by X-ray tubes had a longer wavelength than the radiation emitted by radioactive nuclei (gamma rays).[6] Older literature distinguished between X- and gamma radiation on the basis of wavelength, with radiation shorter than some arbitrary wavelength, such as 10−11 m, defined as gamma rays.[7] However, as shorter wavelength continuous spectrum "X-ray" sources such as linear accelerators and longer wavelength "gamma ray" emitters were discovered, the wavelength bands largely overlapped. The two types of radiation are now usually distinguished by their origin: X-rays are emitted by electrons outside the nucleus, while gamma rays are emitted by the nucleus.[6][8][9][10]
to see if u have snapped a bone or muscle
X-rays have a wide use in medicine and in industrial applications. We might start with the obvious and consider that X-rays are used to look at the skeletal system of the body. An X-ray can also be used to locate foreign objects in the body. They can also be used in dental assessments, and you might have experienced this. In conjunction with dyes, they can be used to find ruptures in blood vessels and abnormalities in a number of organs or structures.

We find X-rays used in industrial settings to look at welds in pipe and to view other things we cannot "look into" by other means. Astronomers also use special instruments to look for X-ray sources in space as a way to gain knowledge of distant objects.
The x-rays are used to see your bones and all the organs and to see whats inside of you

x-rays are used to see into the human skeletal system to also see any fractures or breaks