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Conductor- Low resistance to the flow of electricity, heat or other form of energy

Insulator- High resistance to the flow of electricity, heat or other form of energy

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Conductor are materials which electric current can flow freely, and Insulator are materials which electric current cannot flow freely. 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.

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Insulator do not have free electron and very high energy gap. conductor have free electron .

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