Thread: Pure Copper?
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Unread 02-25-2003, 06:14 PM   #9
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Define pure.

Without being anal, you don't really get pure materials, as Hydrogen18 rightly stated.

The problem with copper is that small additions of just about anything wreck it's thermal characteristics. However, working in our favour is the fact that copper is rarely used for anything other than electrical or thermal applications, so most copper available is as pure as is commercially viable.

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