{"id":17400,"date":"2016-08-21T00:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17400"},"modified":"2016-08-21T00:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:26:34","slug":"stainless-steel-magnetic-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/stainless-steel-magnetic-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Stainless steel:  magnetic or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor investigates the idea that stainless steel is non-magnetic.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard from more than one source that stainless steel is non-magnetic:  if you put a magnet to it, there isn&#8217;t attraction like you might expect with &#8220;ordinary&#8221; steel.<\/p>\n<p>According to <u>Scientific American<\/u>, some stainless steel is magnetic, but the most common kind (Type 304) isn&#8217;t.  What makes Type 304 nonmagnetic:  its content of nickel, manganese, carbon, and nitrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Stainless steel made from just iron and chromium (13 to 18 percent Cr) likely will be magnetic.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of certain elements in the steel affects its atomic pattern; some patterns result in magnetic attraction, while others do not.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-dont-magnets-work-on\/\">scientificamerican.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor investigates the idea that stainless steel is non-magnetic. I&#8217;ve heard from more than one source that stainless steel is non-magnetic: if you put a magnet to it, there isn&#8217;t attraction like you might expect with &#8220;ordinary&#8221; steel. According &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/stainless-steel-magnetic-or-not\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stainless steel:  magnetic or not?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,7,10],"tags":[1827],"class_list":["post-17400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-physics","category-sciences","tag-is-stainless-steel-magnetic-why-is-some-stainless-steel-not-attracted-to-a-magnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17400"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17411,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17400\/revisions\/17411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}