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Metals are good conductors of electricity and heat?
Yes. Think of metals as a sea of electrons where electrons can move freely. To get electricity, you need to have a current, which is the movement of electrons.
Are metals thermal insulators?
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What are electrons that do not move freely called?
protons????
Are lead and tin good conductors if so why?
Lead and tin are good conductors, as are all metals. That is a result of the metallic bond, in which the constituent atoms in a piece of metal share their electrons with each other in the form of a cloud of electrons, all of which can move very freely and are not attached to any particular atom or region.
Is metal a good insulator?
In a conductor, electric current can flow freely, in an insulator it cannot. Metals such as copper typify conductors, while most non-metallic solids are said to be good insulators, having extremely high resistance to the flow of charge through them. "Conductor" implies that the outer electrons of the atoms are loosely bound and free to move through the material. Most atoms hold on to their electrons tightly and are insulators. In copper, the valence electrons are essentially free and strongly repel each other. Any external influence which moves one of them will cause a repulsion of other electrons which propagates, "domino fashion" through the conductor.Simply stated, most metals are good electrical conductors, most nonmetals are not. Metals are also generally good heat conductors while nonmetals are not.Source: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/conins.html
Are there loosely bound electrons in insulators?
In electrical insulators electrons are not able to move freely.
What is the similarities between conductors and insulators?
Conductors and insulators are different and simalar in many ways.Two ways they are simallar are they both have electrons and have something to do with electricity.Three ways they are different that conductors let heat and electricity go through it .On the other hand insulators do not let heat or electreicity go through it easily.Another way is conductors transfer eelectrons easily but meanwhile the insulator psses on electrons with difficulty.One last thing is that conductors are not current but insulators are current. HOPE I HELPED YOU
What type of materials can conduct electricity?
Non-metals are mostly poor conductors, or so called insulators. Metals conduct electricity. These have free electrons which may move freely around the surface of the element.
How electron can move in water?
Electrons more freely in water because they are good conductors.
What allows a conductor to conduct electricity?
Conductors are substances where electrons can freely move from atom to atom.
What are materials that allow electrons to move through them easily?
A conductor. Most metals are conductors-they enable electrons to move freely through them, carrying an electrical charge. Most non-metals (notably excluding graphite, an isotope of carbon) are insulators which means that they do not allow an electrical charge to be carried through them.
Metals are good conductors of electricity and heat?
Yes. Think of metals as a sea of electrons where electrons can move freely. To get electricity, you need to have a current, which is the movement of electrons.
Charges can not move freely through?
Insulators.
Are metals good insulators of electricity?
No Metal atoms delocalise eachothers electrons. This means the electrons become free to move. So these delocalised electrons carry electrical charge around. This makes metals electrical conductors, the opposite of good insulators of electricity.
What is a material through which electrons do not easily flow?
insulator
Why metal good conductors of heat?
Because the electrons of the atoms in the metal move freely and are not attached to one specific atom.
A material in which charges cannot move freely?
Insulators
