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Although high permeability materials can route field lines around things to a certain extent, you can't get the kind of total magnetic shielding you'd want to s
by whatshisface 4y ago
Although high permeability materials can route field lines around things to a certain extent, you can't get the kind of total magnetic shielding you'd want to say, protect a floppy disk from a strong magnet, without superconductors.
- metadat 4y agoWhy is this?
- whatshisface 4y agoConductors shield against electric fields and also catch EM radiation because it involves both E and M fields, but magnetic shielding relies on something analogous to electric polarization and consequently is more difficult.