Why do we use 60 and 50 HZ only?

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Why do we use 60 and 50 hertz?, Why not 10. or 50,000?
From one size, the higher the frequency - the higher would be energy loss in the electric power grid. Inductive resistance is directly depends on the frequency.
so it seems better to use as low frequency as possible, and 10 hertz seems much better for long-range electricity transfer.

From another size, the efficiency of electric transformer is higher when frequency is higher.

So if you use very low frequency then lets say instead of this:

you’d need something like, 50–60 hertz is a compromise between the electricity loss, in long distance power grid, and transformers efficiency and size.

On the aircrafts, for example, the size and mass of the transformers is much more important than efficiency of power lines - this is why airplanes using 400 hertz.
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