John A. wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:39:52 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

John A. wrote:

We have an employee with some of those fancy stainless steel
appliances. She says magnets don't stick.

Then it's not stainless steel.

Some grades of stainless steel aren't magnetic. Depends on how much
nickel is in it, I gather.

At one time, before alloys that were magnetic become commonplace, the
standard test was to apply a magnet--if it didn't stick the part was
steel (aluminum and magnesium you could tell by weight, and titanium,
well, it didn't exist commercially).

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