copper wire
Coiled metal filament
Copper wire is wire made from copper metal, valued for its excellent electrical conductivity and flexibility.
It serves as the standard material for electrical wiring in buildings, electronics, and power transmission.
The term often appears in discussions of theft, as copper's scrap value makes installed wiring a target for criminals.
Someone stripped the copper wire out of the abandoned building.
Copper wire also functions in plumbing, crafts, and jewelry making.
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
- conductivityAbility to carry current
- patinaSurface film from aging
- extrusionPushing through a die
telecommunications · current flow · drawing · pull through · annealing · gauge · twisted pair · Faraday · ductility · grounding · malleability · tensile strength · strand · oxidation · corrosion resistant · scrap metal · voltage · stripped
- conductorsaluminum, platinum, nickel, brass, tungsten
- Electricity HistoryMichael Faraday, Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin, Thomas Edison
- copperworkcoppersmithing, copperware, weathervanes, gutters, downspouts
- electrical wiringcircuit, conduit, receptacle, electrical panel, Romex
- Tech Materialssilicon, lithium, cobalt, aluminum, nickel
- wire
copper wirefiber optic
Light-based data transmission
fiber optic cable · optical fiber · glass fiber · wireless · radio transmission
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