• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I know someone with metal pins in their leg and they have had a MRI. It depends on the metal. Since I didn’t specify what kind of metal everyone rushes forward to speculate on how wrong I am.

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          1 day ago

          Not at all, I was simply pointing out why you were wrong. You’re hallucinating this supposed importance that everyone places on you being wrong.

          This is at least your second comment of you complaining about someone disagreeing with you, so maybe your last sentence is projection and you’re the one who’s feels powerless in your life?

          Sounds like a sad way to live.

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        2 days ago

        Except that they’re clearly zinc shot. I think the poster made a funny without realising that they aren’t steel, unless it’s zinc-coated

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      2 days ago

      MRIs work because strong enough magnetic fields will interact with any material, not just ferrous metals. This can be impacted by the structure said materials form (stents are a weave like a finger trap and therefore more prone to interaction with magnetic fields than say a solid cylinder) but I’d be inclined to say your friend was lucky. Ball bearings like in the OP are nearly always steel outside of specific high end applications and therefore would behave like they were coming out of a shotgun shell.

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        1 day ago

        Nothing you are going to type here is going to change the comments made by the tech operating the imaging system while I’m testing network connections right next to him around fifteen years ago.