metal detectors

Airport security equipment

Metal detectors are electronic devices that sense the presence of metal nearby.

Handheld wands and walk-through gates screen people at airports and courthouses for weapons.

Hobbyists sweep beaches and fields with detector coils, hunting for coins, jewelry, or artifacts: He found a Civil War belt buckle with his metal detector.

device

discrimination

Unjust differential treatment

VLF · ferrous · non-ferrous · iron mask · frequency · sweep · headphones · shaft · armrest · display

technology

electromagnetic

Involving electric and magnetic fields

signal processing · magnetometer · phase shift · pulse · transmitter · receiver · circuitry · microprocessor · mineralization · saltwater

prospecting

gold

Element seventy-nine

coins · jewelry · panning · prospectors · finds · beach · mineralogy · ore · gems · cache

security

airport

Aviation passenger facility

contraband · wand · handheld · walkthrough · baggage · guard · scan · alarm · courthouse · stadium

archaeology

artifacts

Human-made historical objects

digging · site · burial · tombs · treasure · pottery · jewelry · ancient · ruins · stratigraphy

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detection method/technology

metal detectorsGeiger counters

Ionizing radiation measurement instruments

body scanners · thermal imaging · infrared sensors

security philosophy

metal detectorsopen access

Free public scholarly content

free passage · honor system · open borders

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G