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Ross Herbert wrote:
I don't think I have ever come across a "plated" electrical contact. In
my experience electrical contacts are always a solid material such as
brass (cheap and nasty - often used in electrical appliances) or a more
exotic alloy material such as nickel-silver.

The vast majority of connectors which aren't plain brass are plated.

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