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Generally, pot metal will not be attracted by a magnet. Let's dig around a bit and see what's up.

Pot metal is a general term, and it is applied to cheap, readily available metals with a low melting point that are used to make "trinkets" and other metal objects that are inexpensively produced. Pot metal may be composed of different combinations of aluminum, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, tin and zinc. And before you jump on the idea that the iron in pot metal will make it magnetic, know that you would be correct if there was very much in there. Recall that pot metal is generally defined as having (among other characteristics) a low melting point. Iron has a relatively high melting point, and it is not a eutectic metal. Eutectic metals exhibit the property of having a melting point lower than that of the constituent metals used to make the alloy. Iron does not belong in this class of materials.

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