What's up guys?!?!?! Michael with Michael Talks Metal back for episode 151. I think it's time we change up the format of Michael Talks Metals. For the next couple weeks we're going to take a break from weekly videos while we retool the approach and come back for something even better. So Stay TUNED!!!!! Let's do this. we're back for the 151st time and our topic for today is conductivity.... electrical conductivity in the common pure metals.
And it is one of the more common metals that carries electricity to our homes and workplace for us every day. Copper is by far the most common..... owing to excellent conductivity at reasonable cost.
The scientific units of measure for resistance to the flow of electricity are cumbersome so a practical measure of the relative conductivity of metals is useful to make comparisons.
If you recall, in last week's video, check the card, we explained that the "IACS" conductivity rating is the percentage compared to the "International Annealed Copper Standard". On this scale, copper is 100% ... no surprise there. So everywhere around us we have copper bringing the power from the grid to every outlet and cord.
