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you get all kinds of unusual metals being used in electrical equipment

we used a relay recently that came in two variants, one with tungsten plated contacts for high breaking current capacity (tungsten resists sputtering pretty well) and one with rhodium plated contacts for low on resistance (tungsten also has one of the highest resistivities of any metal)
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