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To insulate the wires
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Why are many wires coated with plastic or some other matierial?
To protect them and to provide insulation.
Why does a car engine have a burning smell?
Because it's hot, it burns gasoline, and there are plastic-coated wires.
How does plastic over metal wires prevent being electrocuted?
Plastic is a bad conductor of electricity. Metals are good conductors of electricity. You get the metal wires coated by plastic. So when you touch the wire, you do not get the electric current. This nature of the plastic protects you from getting electrocuted.
What are electrical wires coated with to stop us getting a shock?
It varies- heavy cables are usually coated in a rubber compound that is sometimes enriched with graphite. Household cabling is usually coated with plastic compounds of various types.
Why do electrical wires covered with rubber?
AnswerBecause, it is a good insulator and won't conduct electricity. It is also flexible.It coated by rubber or plastic
Why do copper wires need to be coated in plastic?
To stop them shorting out with one another when they touch and to prevent people from being electrocuted by touching a bare wire.
Why is plastic wrapped around the wires?
Electrical wiring is coated with an insulating material to protect people, animals, objects and other circuits from shock and to protect the circuit of which the wire is a part from shorts and surges. Bag ties are coated to protect the user from cuts and punctures.
What metal is mostly used with copper coated wires?
Wires are made of copper and sometimes coated with silver for use at frequencies above 1 GHz. Wires used on overhead power lines are usually stranded aluminimum with inner strands of steel.
Install light fixture to 6 wire?
usually you segregate them. all whites together all blacks together all non-coated copper wires and/or green coated wires together use wire nuts to connect above-mentioned wires together
Can you connect copper wires to tin coated copper wires?
Yes. You can twist them together and wire nut them, or solder them together.
Why doesnt a bird standing on a high voltage wire get electrocuted?
The wires are coated in rubber.
Why are wires coverd with plastic?
Insultation
