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Is copper wire pure copper

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Very few things are 100%

You can find copper wire with 99.999% purity commercially.

The purity of copper is expressed as 4N for 99.99% pure or 7N for 99.99999% pure. The numeral gives the number of nines after the decimal point when expressed as a decimal (e.g. 4N means 0.9999, or 99.99%).

Much electrical wiring is not more than 99,9% copper.

Very small amounts (some tens or a few hundred parts per million) of impurities have a rather large effect on the electrical conductivity of copper. Oxygen is intentionally alloyed into copper to scavenge sulphur and hydrogen which have various unwanted mechanical and electrical effects on the finished product.

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Copper wire is pure copper (purity greater than 99,90 %).

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Copper is an element, so it may be pure, but copper may be mixed with other metals, or it may combine chemically with oxygen, and in either case it would not be pure.

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Copper wire is not an alloy; the purity of Cu is higher than 99,9 %.

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