Why build a magnetically shielded room?
Oxford Sparks Big Questions
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I Don't Feel Like I'm in a Metal Box
New metal is a really good absorber of magnetic fields. So as we stand inside here, all the earth's field gets sucked into this metal that makes up the walls. We nail three layers of metal to it, and we overlap them to a sort of maximis ther their shielding effect. It just involves a lot of hard work, from the o the buildings to e here, nailing and all tat. But weet we're almost there.
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