The outer shells on conductive metal atoms are quite a ways (relatively speaking--atoms are really small) from their nuclei. Because of this, the attraction between the electrons in that shell and the nucleus isn't very high, and the electrons form what's called an "electron cloud." Now, the cool thing about electron clouds is that they hold a certain number of electrons and no more--basically, the number of atoms multiplied by the number of electrons in the outer shell...if there are a million atoms in a piece of wire and the outer shell holds four electrons, there are four million electrons in the cloud. (This is a REALLY short piece of wire.) If you hook one side of a power supply and a light bulb to your wire, hook the light bulb to the other side so you have a complete circuit, and start feeding electrons into one end of this cloud, electrons will be forced out the other end to maintain equilibrium and...voila! The light comes on!
Copper is a good conductor of electricity because it has a high number of free electrons in its atomic structure that can move easily through the material when a voltage is applied. These free electrons allow electricity to flow with low resistance, making copper an efficient material for conducting electricity.
Copper and any other metals are good conductors because they allow current in electricity to easily flow through them. On the other hand, materials like rubber, plastic, and wood are poor conductors
It's a metal with one electron in its valence shell.
Yes. Among metals copper is second only to silver in electrical conductivity.
Copper is the excellent conductor for heat and electricity.
They conduct. :) HOpe you understand.
No. Copper is a good conductor of heat.
Copper is a good conductor of electricity. Copper pipes are often used for plumbing because of their ability to easily conduct heat and electricity.
copper is a good conductor
Copper is a conductor. It is widely used in electrical wiring due to its high electrical conductivity, which allows electricity to flow through it with very little resistance.
yes copper is actually a very good insulator to both heat and electric conducting A2: NO. Copper is about the second-best electrical conductor, next to silver. It is also a very Good heat conductor. Try heating an iron poker in a fire. The heat travels slowly to the opposite end. A copper wire, however, if stuck in the fire, will transfer heat Very quickly--you won't be able to hold the other end of it! wikipedia.org/copper
Copper is a conductor. It is widely used in electrical wiring due to its high electrical conductivity, which allows electricity to flow through it with very little resistance.
yes copper is a good conductor of heat only becuase it comes in the conductor of heat
No. Copper is a good conductor of heat.
Copper is a good electrical and thermal conductor.
Copper is a good conductor.
No, Ice is a good insulator and copper is a very good conductor
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Copper is a very good conductor of heat.
No. Copper is a good conductor of both electricity and heat.
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copper is a transition metal. transition metals are good conductors of electricity. QED, copper is a good conductor of electricity.
Copper is a good conductor, that's why it is used to make electrical wire.