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Quorten Blog 1

First blog for all Quorten's blog-like writings

Metal or non-metal? Yeah, really useful actually for data on scanned objects.

  • Metal
  • Non-metal
  • Composition of discrete metal and non-metal parts

Now there are classifications of both metals and non-metals too.

Metals:

  • Magnetic metal (iron)
  • Non-magnetic metal (everything else)
    • Aluminum (most popular)
    • Copper
    • Copper alloys
      • Brass
    • Silver
    • Silver alloys
    • Gold
    • Chrome alloys
  • Rare earth metal

Non-metals:

  • Plastic
    • Polystyrene
    • Polyethyline
      • HDPE
      • LDPE
      • PET/PETE
    • Polypropylene
    • Polyester
      • PLA
    • Nylon
    • Polyester-nylon blend
    • Polycarbonate
    • ABS
    • PC-ABS
  • Plastic fabric
  • Wood
    • Plywood
    • Oak
    • Ash
    • Elm
  • Paper
  • Cardboard
  • Other fabric
    • Cotton
    • Fleece
    • Wool
    • Silk

Now we need easy and fun ways/tools to detect the other material types. By far it appears the metal detector is the easiest, though.