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hey can you hand me that wire please no not the cable not the cord the wire huh

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what do you mean you thought they were the same thing I guess it's not that

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surprising since most people don't know the difference between them since cable

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and cord can often be used interchangeably and then a wire is a

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component of either of them so we'll start with wires a wire is a single

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conductor usually made of one strand but sometimes more of a conductive metal

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like copper or aluminum since it's made of a conductor it can carry electricity

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either to power something on the other end or deliver some type of signal often

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for telecommunication but the important thing here is that a wire even if it's

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got multiple strands acts as a single conductor a cable is a group of two or

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more wires glass fibers or other materials often twisted and running

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together to the same place just like with wires most cables can carry either

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electricity or electrical signals but there's a lot more variety in their

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design depending on the intended application copper cables come in all

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kinds of sizes and shapes simple three conductor AC power cables the type

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you'll have all around your house twisted pair the type you'll find in an

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Ethernet network cable coaxial where the two conductors carry different signals

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and the list goes on and on sometimes

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they're all working together like how the two wires in a DC power cable are

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just insulated positive and negative power for one device but in other cases

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like a thunder Vol cable a sweet technology that we covered in this video

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here they might actually carry power and multiple types of signaling along the

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same cable at the same time to be broken out at the other end the definition does

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trickfy a little though where materials other than metal are involved a fiber

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optic cable is still a cable even when it's a single strand because a wire must

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be made of a conductive metal and while outside of electronics a cable is still

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usually made of metal like on a suspension bridge in some cases only

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when it's very heavy and strong it can refer to a rope a cord is very similar

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to a cable multiple strands of either a conductor or rope all insulated or

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Twisted together and going to the same place with the main difference being the

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flexibility and ruggedness so for non-conductors the thick ropes from

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before would be cables but not cords and

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for a thin rope that would be a cord but not a cable for electrical stuff most of

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what you find in your house could be called either a cord or a cable interchangeably but any thicker

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industrial grade gear is automatically a

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cable so now you know while all of these

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things are related and there is some overlap they are actually different

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after all and now that you know the next time someone confuses a wire with a

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cable you can be a decent human being and say nothing because in the grand

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scheme of things it really doesn't matter or you can stop them in their

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