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What things conduct heat?

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Technically, everything. Any amount of matter will conduct heat as a matter of molecular vibrations. However, heat conduction increases with density and delocalization of bonds (metals are the best conductors, followed by some forms of graphite, then probably some organic molecules, then other molecules, then salts, then lastly rocks and such).

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actually everything can conduct heat, heat can even travel through vacuum, but some things conduct heat better than the others

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