Eye-opening! The power line is made like this

2018-01-29

Wire is one of the most basic elements of modern society. Although you normally hard to notice it, it ensures our daily life and entertainment. Do you know how to make the wire? Photographer E.Golovach show the beauty of the making process of Russia's copper company through the lens.

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The next step is high-temperature refining, i.e. dissolving these materials into copper water.

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In this process, the workers shall inject oxygen with high pressure to boil the copper water.

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Flow molten copper (also containing a considerable amount of impurities) into the mold, implement preliminary cooling, and sent to electrolytic cell to remove the impurities.

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The pure copper sheet after removing impurities shall be sent to melt, cooled to relatively rough copper bar, and stretched to thin, and it can be used as wire until reaching s a certain diameter.

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