Electrons cannot easily move through a type of material called electrical insulators. These materials tend to be plastics or rubber. Just think of the coating on wires in your home for example
Graphite and lead are common electron moderators used to inhibit the motion of free electrons in Nuclear reactors. Pressurized water is also used for the same purpose.
an insulator is a substance through which electrons cannot pass through easily
Electrons can't move trough insulators. They can move through conductors.
Insulators (glass, rubber, etc).
rubber
insolator
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.
yes it does. if the electrons are lost easily, reactivity is more.
Ebonite is a poor conductor of electricity, it is an insulator. Electrons cannot move easily within it, but can it form and hold a static charge.
A Chemical bond that cannot be separated easily through physical means
Mercury easily shares its valence electrons
The answer 2 this ? is that it is the insulator because the definition is that an insulator is something that cannot move through that well.
insulators
Insolator
A conductor
wires or tinfoil, or metal
A Resistor
A conductor
It permits electrons to flow through it easily.
conductors like metals
iron or water...almost any metal..i hear that iron is the best though
If an electric current doesn't pass easily through a substance, such a substance is said to be an INSULATOR.
Heat moves easily through materials with delocalised electrons, that is electrons which are free to move through the substance. This happens in metals and graphite.