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Silver is the best conductor of electricity why then electric wires are not made of silver?
Sunitasinghgp9261
Cost and strength. Silver is quite rare, and cables out of it would be very expensive. Copper and aluminium is almost as good and a lot cheaper. Next is strength. Silver is quite soft, so big power lines wouldn't be possible to make out of silver alone anyhow. They'd need steel cables to help carry them.
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