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Why computer connectors are gold-plated
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Those shiny gold pins on your expensive computer parts are not there to flaunt wealth. Copper and silver are actually better conductors, but they eagerly react with oxygen and tarnish into useless, non-conductive crusts. Gold is heavily used on contact points simply because it stubbornly refuses to chemically react with the atmosphere, saving your hardware from slowly suffocating itself.
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