If a water bottle is in the same vicinity as an X-ray, will the water bottle still be safe to drink from?

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It sure will.

Here is the danger from an X-ray : the radiation is like a tiny bullet that’s the just right size that if you are super unlucky, it can directly strike your DNA and either shoot a piece off, or re-arrange it. Many years after such an event that alternation to your DNA might trigger the development of cancer.

Water does not have DNA and water is not alive, hence water cannot get cancer. Even if it could, cancer is not communicable and eating or drinking cancer cannot give *you* cancer.

As an aside, water is really, really, really good at safely absorbing radiation. In face, one of the safest places (as measured by amount of radiation exposure) to be in a nuclear powerplant is right there in the water near the core itself.

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