"JohnP" wrote in message
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Chris J Dixon wrote in
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Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

I just knew somebody would say that. Also stainless seems often to be
a bit of misnomer. Ours may or may not be stainless but I can attach a
fridge magnet to it,yet others I can't so its some kind of alloy. and
it seems to be stained by tea.

Not really a misnomer - it stains less than mild steel. Leave a
Brillo pad on it, however, and you will soon see rust marks.

Some SS is magnetic, some is not.

Chris

Austenitic and non-austenitic grades


Well I've learned something today - that there is a non-magnetic allotrope
of iron. I'd naively thought that anything made of or containing metallic
iron was ferromagnetic.