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Copper forms the modern lifestyle.
Tiny motor windings work inside electric toothbrushes and hair-dryers while special copper alloys help batteries last much, much longer.
Microchips in everything from telephones to cameras to computers are mounted on lead-frames pressed from strip made of special copper alloys. This enables the very precise pattern to be achieved every time.
Ultra-thin copper foil provides the plate for most printed circuit boards and it is thanks to tiny copper cooling components that laptop computers can continue to get smaller as they become more powerful.