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The Incredible, Fiery Process of Making Copper Wire

Posted April 07, 2014 8:39 AM

From Gizmodo:

Wires are some of the most basic components of the modern world, which practically guarantees that most of us take them for granted. But as English Russia so kindly shows us, the process behind our messy heaps of wiring is anything but ordinary.

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Re: The Incredible, Fiery Process of Making Copper Wire

04/07/2014 9:49 PM

Typical GizCrap reporting.

Those hot, red things that are pored into "molds" are anodes.

"Wires" are a vanishing commodity in the electronics industries.

"Conductors" are taking on different forms and methods of manufacture and deployment/printing. Think additive.

Anode, not mold. ↑
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