Here is the definition of American wire gauge from Wikipedia.
Go to the link and there is a table of the actual wire diameters,
etc, in the article.
Dan
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American wire gauge
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American wire gauge (AWG), also known as the "Brown and Sharpe" wire gauge, is used in the United
States and other countries as a standard method of denoting wire diameter, especially for
nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. The steel industry uses a different numbering system for
their wire thickness gages (e.g. W&M Wire Gage or US Steel Wire Gage or the different Music Wire
Gage) so data below does not apply to steel wire.
Increasing gauge numbers give decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other non-metric
gauging systems. This seemingly-counterintuitive numbering is derived from the fact that the gauge
number is related to the number of drawing operations that must be used to produce a given gauge of
wire; very fine wire (for example, 30 gauge) requires far more passes through the drawing dies than
does 0 gauge wire.
Note that for gauges 5 through about 14, the wire gauge is effectively the number of bare solid
wires that, when placed side by side, span 1 inch. That is, 8 gauge is about 1/8" in diameter.
In the same fashion, AWG is also commonly used to specify body piercing jewelry sizes, especially
smaller sizes.[1]
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