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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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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