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From the resistivity table, silver has resistivity 1.60 x 10^-8 ohm-metre. Compared to copper (1.62 x 10^-8), silver is:

Question
From the resistivity table, silver has resistivity 1.60 x 10^-8 ohm-metre. Compared to copper (1.62 x 10^-8), silver is:
A worse conductor than copper
A slightly better conductor than copper
An insulator
Equal in every property to copper
Answer
A slightly better conductor than copper
Detailed Explanation
Since silver has slightly lower resistivity than copper, it is a marginally better conductor.
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