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insulation does not block magnetic fields unless its REALLY good insulation?

Another user has stated this in his answer and I was curious what everyone though? I do not believe that any wire insulator will block magnetic fileds, its just distance dependent right? (apart fom counteracting it with other magnetic fileds perhaps)

Answer:

Sure, you can block it? What did you mean by blocking other than a shield? By insulation, you didn't mean like highly resistive, right? Cause that definitely won't do that trick. You need something metallic. A superconductor will pretty much kill the entire B-field in no distance at all.

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