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Aluminium is not used for water pipes. It's not as elastic as Copper.
Because aluminium is less expensive than copper, it is sometimes used for electrical wiring, but, because it corrodes much more easily than copper, much more care has to be taken a) to protect it from the atmosphere and b) to make connections that will be remain reliable over a long period of time. Overall, aluminium wire is not as easy to install so, for general purposes, copper wire is better.
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What are the plastic pipes called that wires run through?
The pipes are PVC electrical conduits.
What is conduit fitting?
Conduit fitting is used on metal pipes that house electrical wires. These fittings are not only to connect the various pieces together, but to keep a relatively water tight seal to the wires.
What is metal usually used for?
Copper is frequently used for electrical wires. Aluminium is cheaper but breakable.
What are the names of the conduit pipes holding the wires that go from a residential house to the city's electrical wires?
It is known as the service stack.
Is to pipes as electricity is to wires?
water/liquid
Do people use copper often?
yes they do they use for lots of thing like pipes wires electrical cords
Are copper wires and not steel wires used in electric circuits although both copper and steel are electrical conductors?
Steel is not used as an electrical conductor because, although it is a conductor, it's not a very good conductor -as is copper and aluminium, for example. A steel-wire core is used, however, to reinforce aluminium conductors on transmission tower lines
What is the basic frame work of roads electric wires water and gas pipes fiber optic cables etc.?
What is the basic frame work of roads electric wires water and gas pipes fiber optic cables etc.?
Why aluminium is used in electrical wires even then it is corrosive metal?
Aluminum is used in electrical wires as it is a good conductor, is lightweight and inexpensive (as compared to it's closest competitor copper). Most power distribution lines, especially overhead ones, are aluminum.
Why aluminium wires are not insulated?
Aluminum wires are insulated.
Can you run supply pipes hot and cold and drain pipe under electrical panel?
As long as the wires are fed to the panel from above.
What are the three use of copper?
Copper coins (though are more an alloy than pure copper nowadays), copper pipes in plumbing, copper plus tin and other metals to produce bronze. There is also the copper used to produce electrical wiring. There is even aluminium wires clad (coated) in a thin layer of copper for electrical use. The list could go on...!
