08-09-2014, 03:27 AM
Drew Phipps Wrote:The density of skin (mostly black on an xray) is about 1050 kg/m3.
The density of sand is 1280 kg/m3. (Can't tell you what x ray color that might make, but its closer to black than white)
The density of bone is 1900 kg/m3 (mostly white on an xray)
The density of iron is 2600 kg/m3 (bright white on an xray)
The density of lead is over 11,000 kg/m3.
I sorta doubt that the tiny bright fragments are less dense than the bone upon which they lay.
The matter that makes up bone may have a density of 1900 kg./m3 but, is it porous or solid? Would an x-ray of a rock (sand being merely very small rocks) show up as opaque and bright white, and appear similar to the lead fragments seen in the x-ray?
Cast iron actually has a density of 6800-7800 kg./m3, not 2600. A density of 2600 kg./m3 would be more applicable to aluminum. As we are comparing densities here, should lead have a different appearance in an x-ray than iron? For that matter, gold has a density of 19.3 (19,300 kg./m3) and platinum a density of 21.45 (21,450 kg./m3). Do they appear differently in x-rays than sand, lead and iron?
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964