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you fail at chem/physics.

contact?? i think you mean conduct, because every substance can contact electricity.

A: some conduct electricity better (eg. metals) because they have free moving electrons in their outer shell. electricity is the movement of electrons. therefore metals readily allow a current of electrons to pass though them.

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