Re: very stupid question from dumb blonde!

[Guest guest]

> Just a technical thought - I find that I set off about 95% of airport

> alarms - and I do a lot of travelling - but seldom set off the wand

> that some airports use to check you. I wonder whether the

> technologies used are different. Our implants, being non-ferrous,

> would not set off anything looking for ferrous metals.

There are many substances which exhibit " ferromagnetism " , the strong

response to magnetic fields typically associated with iron. One of

these substances is cobalt. These implants are roughly 2/3 cobalt, and

any metal detector that isn't set off by them is seriously out of whack.

Steve (bilateral C+ 4/20/04, Amstutz)