English: An assortment of mu-metal shapes from a 1951 advertisement in an electronics magazine. Mu-metal is a nickel iron alloy which has an extremely high magnetic permeability. It is used for shielding a variety of electronic equipment from magnetic fields. The conical shapes in background are cathode ray tube shields. The boxes at right are transformer shields.
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