why do earrings not set off metal detectors at the airport?
In: Chemistry
Metal detectors are basically big magnets looking for something that reacts to the magnetic field
Earrings and other jewelry don’t contain much ferrous (magnetic) metals because ferrous metals rust and are more expensive than the cheap costume jewelry metals
Alternatively expensive earrings contain gold which is not magnetic, cheap diluted gold will be detected by metal detectors
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