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Is pewter ferrous

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technically yes, pewter is made from lots of metals such as tin, lead, copper etc

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Pewter is not a ferrous metal, as it is not magnetic. It is in the same category as aluminium.

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Pewter is mainly tin, so you could say it was stannary (of tin), but not ferrous (of iron) as there is no iron content in it at all.

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Pewter is mostly tin (>85%) plus copper, antimony, and lead (mostly modern pewter leaves out the lead, for obvious reasons...)

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It comes in lots of differant types of metal

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