drez
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Which is pretty much right on target for your basic Plain Jane ETP (otherwise referred to as "crappy" by some here) copper. Most of the rest is oxygen, which is used during the smelting process to scavenge impurities and take them out of solution which increases the conductivity of the copper to that of OFHC copper which must have a higher inherent purity to achieve the same conductivity because it can't use oxygen for scavenging.
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So for the same purity level, am I understanding that ETP copper is more conductive than OFC? Pretty interesting, I never knew that (then again this is not really my field.)