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Should the heating element of an electric iron be made of of iron Silver or nichrome wire?
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∙ 10y ago
It should be made of nichrome wire because resistivity of nichrome is high.Its high resistivity causes nichrome to heat up faster, when an electrical current is passed electricity moves through the wires, givingheat to the element.
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