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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The first officer retrieved his rifle and left the scanner room “leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor.”

Nice when they refill the MRI and need to quench it again.

[–] SupraMario 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unless he was using steel case rounds, most ammunition isn't magnetic, it wasn't going to cause issues with the machine.... he's still a fucking idiot though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An MRI works at 3T to 7T. At that range oxygen is slightly magnetic (Everything is magnetic, just not ferromagnetic). This can cause damage to the machine if it misaligned a critical component.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@IsoSpandy @SupraMario
Minor correction: the word for this is paramagnetic. Paramagnetism happens when a molecule has unpaired electrons, whereas diamagnetism happens when a molecule has no unpaired electrons. You're pretty much entirely right, though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The spring in the mag is steel

[–] SupraMario 5 points 2 months ago

That's fair, I miss read that, assumed he had dumped a mag full of rounds on the ground, vs a mag with rounds in it.