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Telling aluminum from stainless steel?

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Like others have said stainless can be magnetic or not. 300 series stainless is not 400 series has chromium and is magnetic(but only 50% as much as 10 series steel).

Try scratching it, if the exposed metal is really shinny at first but dulls within the hour it's Al.

You could try sparking it with a grinding wheel all stainless gives out a small yellow spark, Al none.
 
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