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Why are brass nuts and bolts often used for the termination of copper conductors?

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Why are brass nuts and bolts often used for the termination of copper conductors?

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Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc – mainly copper. It’s conductivity is pretty good, though not so good as copper. Pure copper is too soft to be used for nuts and bolts.