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Default aluminum or not? simple method to tell?

In article ,
"Charles Schuler" wrote:

Copper, tin, lead, and other metals are non-magnetic and so are many alloys
such as "stainless steel." Also, metals such as nickel are only weakly
magnetic.


Canadian nickels used to be about 95% pure nickel and they stuck to
magnets just fine.

Isaac