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Why is mineral copper often used to make electrical wires

Sagot :

copper is safer to use than wires made of most other conductive metals because they are resistant to heat. :)
AL2006

Because copper is the second-best electrical conductor, it's cheaper and more plentiful than silver, and it's relatively easy to get it out of the ground, refine it, and form it into wires.

(If the electrical wiring in your house was all silver wire, I guess nothing would ever work, because people would keep stealing your wiring.)