Can a metal detector find my lost titanium wedding band?
My wife still cries when I slip on the little titanium band I got on ebay for $16. She reminds me how she’d had my original band engraved especially for me. I lost it in a sorghum field over two years ago. I returned to the field with a rented metal detector. I found all sorts of rusty junk, but no ring. Later that week, I learned in an electronics class that metal detectors only detect ferrous metals. So unless my titanium ring was alloyed with some iron, even a really good metal detector was useless. I’ve scoured the net and read a lot of accounts from people who have set-off airport metal detectors with titanium body jewelry. So unless these people had a different titanium alloy than mine, the technology does exist to detect titanium. So my question is this: is there a handheld metal detector that might find a small piece of titanium buried in soil?
