How could electrical measurements (including equipotential lines) locate underground anomalies such as a cave, an ore body, a buried pipe, or a vein of minerals?
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Electrical resistivity is a property of materials that quantifies how strongly they resist the flow of electric current. Different materials have different resistivities, which can be used to distinguish them from one another. Show more…
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