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You’d be surprised how much fakery there is in the world of wines, with scammers trying to pass off new wine as highly prized older vintages. But one of the latest countermeasures for ferreting out the fakes is a test of the age of a wine’s glass bottle. This researcher at the Nuclear Research Center of Bordeaux, in France, uses a machine that shoots ion beams at the bottle. The resulting X-rays emitted by the bottle provide clues to when and where the bottle was produced.
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