Sunday, January 2, 2011

Copper- Most Preferred Metal for Making Electrical Gadgets

Copper because of its unique properties has remained the main metal used for electrical purposes. Today copper is used widely as tinned copper wire, bare copper wire, tin coated copper wire, etc. Few properties which makes it very special and wonderful metal used in electrical domain are:

· Copper is very malleable; thus it can be easily drawn into tinned copper wire, bare copper wire, tin coated copper wire. Bare copper wire manufacturers produce very good quality copper wire and that is used in various domains. Copper can be bent, stretched and given different shapes without being cracked. Heat or even cold doesn’t effect its malleability.

· Since copper has very high conductivity they are used as a primary medium in the electrical domain. Though brass, etc, are good conductors, they still cannot match the conductivity of copper. Another metal which can conduct electricity better than copper is silver which is expensive and known to be a rare metal used more in making jewelry items.

· Ductility allows copper to be spun into thin wires, much thinner than human hair. This makes it suitable to make very thin wires.

Copper is highly resistant to corrosion, it remains effective and valuable in humid conditions.

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