In a terminal material with a silver coating film including a silver layer on a surface, a terminal and a terminal material having high reliability are easily manufactured with low cost without a heat treatment. A base material formed of copper or a copper alloy; and nickel layer, an intermediate layer, and a silver layer laminated on the base material in this order are included, the nickel layer has a thickness of 0.05 μm to 5.00 μm and is formed of nickel or a nickel alloy, the intermediate layer has a thickness of 0.02 μm to 1.00 μm and is an alloy layer containing silver (Ag) and a substance X, and the substance X includes one or more kinds of tin, bismuth, gallium, indium, and germanium.

A covered electric wire comprises an insulating coating layer on the outer side of a conductor. The conductor comprises a copper alloy consisting of: not less than 0.05% by mass and not more than 2.0% by mass of Fe; not less than 0.02% by mass and not more than 1.0% by mass of Ti; not less than 0% by mass and not more than 0.6% by mass of Mg; and the balance being Cu and impurities. The covered electric wire is a stranded wire comprising a plurality of copper alloy wires stranded together. The plurality of copper alloy wires each have a work hardening coefficient of not less than 0.1 and a wire diameter of not more than 0.5 mm.

An electrical contact material (10) having: a conductive substrate (1) formed from copper or a copper alloy; a first intermediate layer (2) provided on the conductive substrate (1); a second intermediate layer (3) provided on the first intermediate layer (2); and an outermost layer (4) formed from tin or a tin alloy and provided on the second intermediate layer (3), wherein the first intermediate layer (2) is constructed as one layer of grains extending from the conductive substrate (1) side to the second intermediate layer (3) side, and wherein, in the first intermediate layer (2), the density of grain boundaries (5b) extending in a direction in which the angle formed by the grain boundary in interest and the interface between the conductive substrate and the first intermediate layer is 45° or greater, is 4 μm/μm.sup.2 or less; a method of producing the same; and a terminal.

A coating composition for a substrate includes a polymer binder, one or more hydrophobic silicon dioxide compositions, and one or more UV protection agents. The polymer binder can include a fluoropolymer or an epoxy polymer resin. The coating composition can also include molybdenum disulfide.

There is provided a copper powder containing an organic compound containing carbon and nitrogen. The powder has a ratio of carbon content PC (mass %) to specific surface area SSA (m.sup.2/g), PC/SSA, of 0.005 to 0.1 and a ratio of nitrogen content PN (mass %) to specific surface area SSA (m.sup.2/g), PN/SSA, of 0.001 to 0.05. The organic compound preferably contains two or more of nitrogen atom per molecule and is preferably capable of forming a five-membered ring complex with copper. The organic compound preferably includes one or more of dimethyl glyoxime, ethylenediamine, and polyethyleneimine.

Provided is a heating cable having high flex resistance and flexibility. More particularly, the present invention relates to a heating cable having both an excellent mechanical property such as flex resistance and high flexibility which are in a trade-off relationship, and capable of facilitating control of heat to be generated.

This superconducting wire includes: a strand including a superconducting material; and a stabilizer material for superconductor arranged in contact with the strand, wherein the stabilizer material for superconductor includes a copper material which contains one kind or two kinds or more of additive elements selected from Ca, Sr, Ba, and rare earth elements (RE) for a total amount of 3 ppm by mass or more and 400 ppm by mass or less, with the remainder being Cu and unavoidable impurities, the total concentration of the unavoidable impurities other than O, H, C, N, and S, which are gas components, is 5 ppm by mass or more and 100 ppm by mass or less, and compounds including one kind or two kinds or more selected from CaS, CaSO.sub.4, SrS, SrSO.sub.4, BaS, BaSO.sub.4, (RE)S, and (RE).sub.2SO.sub.2 are present in the matrix.

An electronic wire and a cable which are excellent in bending resistance even when a diameter is small. The electronic wire has a conductor and a resin insulating layer coated on the conductor. The conductor is a double twisted wire in which twisted wires formed by twisting a plurality of wires are twisted, a diameter of the wire is 0.05 mm or more and 0.2 mm or less, a cross-sectional area of the conductor is 1.0 mm.sup.2 or more and 3.0 mm.sup.2 or less, a breaking elongation of the conductor is 10% or more and 17% or less, a tensile strength of the conductor is 200 MPa or more and 400 MPa or less, and the insulating layer is disposed to be in close contact with the conductor and has a solid structure.

The present invention relates to ear-of-rice-shaped copper particles. The technical gist thereof is a method of manufacturing ear-of-rice-shaped copper particles, ear-of-rice-shaped copper particles manufactured thereby, and a conductive paste using the same. The method includes a first step of preparing a copper precursor solution, a second step of adjusting the pH of the copper precursor solution, a third step of adding a zinc powder to the pH-adjusted copper precursor solution, a fourth step of synthesizing the ear-of-rice-shaped copper particles by stirring the copper precursor solution, to which the zinc powder is added, for a predetermined time, and a fifth step of separating, washing, and then drying the synthesized ear-of-rice-shaped copper particles.

A covered electrical wire including a conductor and an insulating coating layer covering an outer periphery of the conductor, in which the conductor is a twisted wire obtained by concentrically twisting together a plurality of elemental wires constituted by a copper alloy, the copper alloy contains one or more elements selected from Fe, Ti, Mg, Sn, Ag, Ni, In, Zn, Cr, Al, and P in a total amount of 0.01 mass % to 5.5 mass % inclusive, and the remaining portion includes Cu and inevitable impurities, and an amount of oil adhering to a surface of a central elemental wire disposed at a central portion of the twisted wire is 10 μg/g or less with respect to the mass of the central elemental wire.