Editing Chain mail (section)

===Practical uses===
[[File:Neptunic shark suit 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Neptunic shark suit]]
Mail is used as protective clothing for butchers against meat-packing equipment. Workers may wear up to {{Convert|8.8|lb|kg|order=flip|sigfig=1|abbr=on}} of mail under their white coats.<ref>{{cite magazine
 |url         = https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fast-food-nation-part-two-meat-and-potatoes-72936/
 |title       = Fast-Food Nation: Meat and Potatoes
 |access-date  = 2020-11-19
 |last        = Schlosser
 |first       = Eric
 |author-link  = Eric Schlosser
 |date        = September 3, 1998
 |magazine        = Rolling Stone
 |issue       = 794
}}</ref> Butchers also commonly wear a single mail glove to protect themselves from self-inflicted injury while cutting meat, as do many oyster shuckers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cocklesandmussels.com/oyster-shucking-gloves/|title = Oyster Shucking Gloves: The Pros Wear them &#91;and you should too&#93;|date = 26 December 2017}}</ref>

Scuba divers sometimes use mail to protect them from sharkbite, as do animal control officers for protection against the animals they handle. In 1980, marine biologist Jeremiah Sullivan patented his design for Neptunic full coverage chain mail shark resistant suits which he had developed for close encounters with [[sharks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/chainmail-metal-spikes-and-unbreakable-material-can-we-design-a-shark-proof-wetsuit-27310741/|title = Chainmail, Metal Spikes and Unbreakable Material: Can We Design a 'Shark-Proof' Wetsuit?}}</ref>
Shark expert and underwater filmmaker [[Valerie Taylor (diver)|Valerie Taylor]] was among the first to develop and test [[shark suit]]s in 1979 while diving with sharks.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stainless steel chainmail diving suit worn by Valerie Taylor|url=http://collections.anmm.gov.au/objects/137378/stainless-steel-chainmail-diving-suit-worn-by-valerie-taylor;jsessionid=BCB542BB1F6CB3CF67338B6781D8E65D|access-date=2020-10-29|website=collections.anmm.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>

Mail is widely used in industrial settings as shrapnel guards and splash guards in metal working operations.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Electrical applications for mail include RF leakage testing and being worn as a [[Faraday cage]] suit by tesla coil enthusiasts and high voltage electrical workers.<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Douglas, David (director)|publisher=Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum|title=Straight Up: Helicopters in Action|date=2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Blake|first=Terry|title=Dr Zeus - Testing of HV Suit w Twin Musical Tesla Coils|url=http://www.dr-zeus.com/|work=Daily Planet Segment 2008|publisher=Discovery Channel|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829073945/http://www.dr-zeus.com/|archive-date=2011-08-29|access-date=2011-08-20}}</ref>

====Stab-proof vests====
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Conventional textile-based ballistic vests are designed to stop soft-nosed bullets but offer little defense from knife attacks. Knife-resistant armour is designed to defend against knife attacks; some of these use layers of metal plates, mail and metallic wires.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FMgpdulJsGgC&pg=PA368 Illustrated Directory of Special Forces, Ray Bonds, David Miller, Zenith Imprint, 2003 p. 368] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506124655/https://books.google.com/books?id=FMgpdulJsGgC&pg=PA368&dq=chainmail+stab+proof+vest&hl=en&ei=5l2hTay4PIqWtwfj1qCeAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE4Q6AEwAzgU |date=2016-05-06 }}</ref>